Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Training workshop Feb. 21 – UPDATED

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tree-logoFeb. 1, 2009 – The Teen Relationship Education and Empowerment (TREE) program will host a training workshop with teams of clergy, lay leaders and youth peer leaders from at least 10 Columbia-area congregations on Feb. 21, 2009. Health professionals will present information on teen dating violence, model ways of addressing the issue in faith-based youth groups, and work with congregational teams to shape their programs. The program was founded with a 2008 Missouri Foundation for Health grant submitted with assistance from the MU Center on Religion & the Professions. Groups interested in building a team for this year or next should contact Kim Ryan at (573) 489-2729 or kgryan58@tranquility.net or Kendra Yoder at klyd29@mizzou.edu.

Upcoming article on spirituality and brain injury

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Jan. 28, 2009 – CORP-affiliated researchers will publish an article, “Relationships among Spiritual Beliefs, Religious Practices, Congregational Support, and Health for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury,” in an upcoming issue of the journal Brain Injury. Authors are Brick Johnstonjohnstone-be, Dong Pil Yoon, Jon Rupright and Stephanie Reid-Arndt.

Lecture: "The Looming Collapse of the American Empire" by Christopher Hedges

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Christopher Hedges

“The Looming Collapse of the American Empire”

A public lecture by Christopher Hedges

Tues., Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Fisher Auditorium, Gannett Hall
University of Missouri

  • UPDATE: Read article in The Maneater
  • Nearly 600 people came to hear Christopher Hedges speak during his visit to University of Missouri. He spoke in a public lecture, to classes and at the Noel P. Gist Luncheon Seminar on International Affairs, in the Missouri School of Journalism.
Hedges

Hedges

Christopher Hedges is a journalist and author specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics. He was a foreign correspondent for 20 years in Central America, Africa, and the Balkans, including seven years in the Middle East as bureau chief for The New York Times. He speaks Arabic.

In 2002 Hedges received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism and was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for The New York Times’ coverage of global terrorism. He has written several books. including War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, the bestselling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, and his most recent, I Don’t Believe in Atheists. A book signing follows. For information, call (573) 882-9720.

Sponsored by the Peace Studies Program, College of Arts and Science, and Center on Religion & the Professions. Free and open to the public.

Groundbreaking research

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Neuropsychological link to spiritual experience

CORP researchers have determined a link between brain function, spiritual experience and selflessness, as reported in the December 2008 issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. The article, “Evaluation of a neuropsychological model of spirituality in persons with traumatic brain injury,” was authored by Dr. Brick Johnstone, head of CORP’s Spirituality and Health research team, and Bret Glass. [Read more…]

Lecture: “The New Shape of Nuclear Danger" by Jonathan Schell

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Lecture: Jonathan Schell, 2005 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Glschell-imageobalization, speaks on “The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.”

Former writer for The New Yorker, Newsday, New York Newsday and The Nation, Schell authored numerous books, including “The Fate of the Earth,” which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Schell has taught at Emory, Princeton, New York and Wesleyan universities. He now writes and speaks on the nuclear issue. Sponsored by MU Peace Studies Program and the Center on Religion & the Professions.

March 10, 2009 – 7:30 p.m
Fisher Auditorium (Gannett Hall)
Missouri School of Journalism

UPDATE: See article in the Columbia Daily Tribune, March 11, 2009
UPDATE: See article in the Columbia Missourian March 5, 2009
UPDATE: See article in the Columbia Missourian Nov. 1, 2008