Center on Religion & the Professions
Improving religious literacy among professionals.
The Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition invites you to engage in candid conversation on a tough topic. This is a free event.
Date/Time: Thursday, November 12, 6:00-8:00 PM
5:30 Sign-in/snacks
Location: 204 S. 9th St., Missouri United Methodist Church, Whittler Hall
Contact: Sign-up at bystander000@gmail.com or call Deb Hume @ 573-884-3757
International peace activist and Nobel laureate Betty Williams will speak on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus in Ellis Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 13, 2009. She was a founder, with Ciaran McKeown and Mairead Corrigan, of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People). She shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Corrigan in 1976.
Co-sponsored by William Woods College, the Peace Studies Program and the Center on Religion & the Professions.
The “T SOCIETY”
The Mid-Missouri Colloquium on Relgious Studies presents Michael J. Mcclymond, Assistant Professor in Theological Studies at St. Louis Univeristy.
“Global Awakenings: Ethnographic and Emirical study of Pentecostal healing practices in Mozambique, Brazil, and North America”
When: Friday, November 13, 2009
Refreshments at 3:30 PM
Meeting to begin at 4:30 PM
Where: Home of Sue Crowley ( 409 S. Greenwood, Columbia, MO)
RSVP: Sue Crowley at 573- 442- 2783 or e-mail at dunnc@missouri.edu
*You are welcome to bring interested colleagues and student
Learn, explore and practice civility concepts in a series of 4 sessions. Pre-registration is required and space is limited to 10 participants.
Date: November 11th
Location: Stephens College Dudley Hall- Room 224
Contact: Hannia Burke-Aguero 573-823-5738 or santamaria@mchsi.com
This annual conference empowers young people ages 12-19 to make real change in their communities and teh world through the education and spiration Nobel Peace Prize winners provide. Includes skill-building workshops, direct interaction with the Nobel Laureate, and a service project involving construction of a mock refugee camp that will hlp raise funds to build a clinic in Rwanda
For complete information see: www. WilliamWoods.edu/PeaceJam
Date/Time: Saturday, November 14 & Sunday, November 15. Starting at 8 AM on both days.
Location: William Woods Univeristy- Fulton Campus
Contact: Scott Miniea, Heartland PeaceJam @ PeaceJamWilliamWoods.edu
News, Events and information from MU’s Center on Religion & the Professions (CORP)
Oct. 16, 2009
The Center on religion continues with its interdisciplinary research and programing in the 2009-2010 academic year, including:
Creating, delivering and evaluating interventions to dating and teen intimate violence through faith-based institutions
Measuring online news consumers’ desires for religion news
Developing profession-specific curriculum to improve cultural competencies regarding religion
Evaluating online models for teaching religious literacy
CENTER SPONSORED EVENTS
THROUGH Dec. 24. Exhibition: “The Sacred Feminine, Prehistory to Postmodernity,” a multi-media art exhibition exploring themes in religious images of women from antiquity to the present. Co-sponsored by CORP, the Center for Arts and the Humanities, and the MU departments of Religious Studies, Art History and Archaeology, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Free. Museum of Art and Archaeology, Pickard Hall, University of Missouri. For museum hours and information, visit maa.missouri.edu.
CORP NEWS
Course Completed: CORP and affiliates recently completed their first offering of “Religious Literacy for the Public and Professions” (Religious Studies 3100), which was taught online this summer through MU Extension’s Center for Distance and Independent Learning. The course provided practical knowledge about religion as it is encountered in the professional world in a pluralistic society. Participants in the class underwent pre- and post-class testing on religious literacy. An analysis of the results of these tests will be featured as a case study in a monograph series published by the Society for Values in Higher Education.
Groundbreaking Collaboration Between Religion, Health Care Journalists: CORP was a co-sponsor, along with Religion Newswriters Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists, of a recent workshop on the role of religion in health care. The program, “Spirituality and Health: A Workshop for Journalists on Understanding the Relationships Among Faith, Culture and Health,” was held Sept. 9-10 in Minneapolis and was attended by more than 50 journalists, including those from the Boston Globe, USA Today, The Associated Press and Sojourners. The event was the first of its kind in which religion and health care journalists collaborated in specialized reporting training. Topics included a history of the medical-religion debate, religion’s role in culturally competent hospital and medical training, new boundaries in bioethics, spirituality and health care policy, and the intersection of palliative care and spiritual needs.
Religion Reporting Students Collaborate on Radio Stories: Students in “Religion Reporting and Writing” (Journalism 7426), taught at MU in the Winter 2009 semester by CORP director Debra L. Mason, collaborated with reporters at KBIA/91.3 FM, Columbia’s NPR affiliate, to produce several news stories on race and religion in Columbia. The stories were aired during the summer.
OTHER CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
Nov. 27 Nomination Deadline: Columbia Values Diversity Awards, to be handed out for the 13th year at the 17th annual Columbia Values Diversity Celebration on Jan. 14, 2010. Nominate any individual, family, or organization you feel should be recognized for their significant impact in promoting appreciation for diversity and cultural understanding. All nominations must be received by noon on Friday, Nov. 27. Nomination forms may be accessed on Columbia’s Office of Community Services Web site at http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/CommunityServices/Programs/CVDC/Awards/index.php.
CORP IN THE NEWS:
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/aug/30/two-women-share-their-thoughts-on-what-the-sacred/
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/10/14/sacred-feminine-transcends-history-art-and-archeology-exhibit/
RELIGION IN THE NEWS
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A special meeting of the Brown Bag Seminar will be meeting to discuses “Gertrude Bell -The Creator Of Iraq.” The Noel P. Gist Seminars, named for the distinguished MU sociologist who founded them, explore the world beyond the borders of the United States and consider the relations of the United States with other countries and regions of the world. Unless otherwise noted, the seminars meet every Thursday when MU classes are in session, 12-1 p.m.
Attendees will find it useful to become familiar with this extraordinary Arabist and her role in creating Iraq and its first King. Useful information may be had by simply Googling her name or from one or more of the following references: “Desert Queen” by Janet Wallach “Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Book review of Howell’s book by Christopher Hitchens in the Atlantic June 2007 – available online. Don’t forget the new location for this meeting.
When: November 5th, 2009, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Where: Daniel Boone Regional Library
Location: Progressive Missionary Baptist Church- 702 Banks Ave.
Date/Time: Thursday, Novemeber 6, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Please RSVP by October 29, 2009 to Bridget.Patton@ic.fbi.gov
Topics to be presented include: Civil Rights, changes and updates in criminal law pertaining to civil rights, human trafficking, and hate crimes.
*There is NO cost associated with this program. Cash and carry lunch will be available on premise. The FBI, Department of Justice Cummunity Relations Service, the Columbia Police Department, the NAACP and the Anti0Defamation League are sponsoring this event.
Immerse yourself in the Indian cinema and culture of Bollywood.
Watch and listen while enjoying free Shakespeare’s pizza and soda. Celebrate the films with activities including: belly dancing, henna tattoos, karaoke and film-inspired crafts.
Featuring performances by Mizzou student organizations including:
· Cultural Association of India
· South Asian Student Association
· Vedic Society
· MU Dance and Recreation Association
· Mizzou Masti
Free to MU students with a valid student ID only. No exceptions. There is a $5 admission charge for all guests and members of the general public
When: November 6th, 2009
Where: MU Campus- Memorial Union
Time: 8 pm- Midnight
Pink Hijab Day- Fighting Breast Cancer together
www. pinkhijabday.net
October 28th is Global Pink Hijab day. The day is inteded to shatter stereotypes of Muslim women, and raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Muslims participate worldwide by wearing pink hijabs, ribbons, and caps and donating to to fight cancer. There will be a tablet at Memorial Union from 10 am to 3 pm with Baklava, henna tattoos, Breast Cancer information and we will be accepting donations for the Susan G. Komen foundation. On Wednesday night there will be a panel on activism and stereotypes of Muslim women at 7 pm in Mumford 133.
**Put on by MU’s Muslim Students’ Organization
Where: Outside Memorial Union
When: October 28th 10am – 3 pm