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"What Gets Left Out: Religious
Persecution in Context"
Free Public Lecture and
Book Signing by Mary Jane Engh
Wednesday, April 18, 2007,
noon
Tucker Forum, 85 Gannett Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Mary Jane Engh -- author of In the Name of Heaven: 3,000
Years of Religious Persecution -- lectures on how not
paying attention to social and historical context can distort
understanding of events, including religious persecution.
Engh defines religious persecution as "repressive actions
initiated or condoned by authorities against their own people
on religious grounds." Her book covers religious persecutions
from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America
and presents her belief that awareness makes persecution predictible,
and possibly preventable.
Engh is a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative
Writing Fellowship Grant. As an independent scholar, she is a
winner of the Women's Classical Caucus Oral Paper Award for 1999,
and is currently working on an extensive reference work on ancient
Roman women.
She is also the author of three novels, a children's novel,
shorter fiction, articles and poems.
"Engh puts her narrative skills to good use by
launching these twenty-two articles on episodes of religious persecution
throughout the world in an attention-grabbing, dramatic manner.
... [She] maintains reader friendliness ... often covering vast
swathes of time remarkably succinctly .... Unlike the historical
figures she sketches, Engh herself manifests neither bigotry nor
religious partisanship."
- BOOKLIST
Sponsored by the MU Center
for Religion, the Professions & the Public. For more
information, contact the Center at (573) 882-2866 or
e-mail whiteab@missouri.edu. |
