Nabhan-Warren gives guest lecture "Engaging Religious Worlds That Are Not Our Own"

Date: Mar. 4, 2008
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall

Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren, an associate professor of religious studies at Augustana College, will give a lecture, "Engaging Religious Worlds That Are Not Our Own: Reflections of an Anthropologist of Religion"on Tuesday, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in Weinstein Hall's Brown-Alley Room. The program is sponsored by the Department of Religion and the American Studies Program.

Nabhan-Warren is an authority on Catholicism in the contemporary United States. Her first book, The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism, was published by New York University Press in 2005. Dr. Nabhan-Warren’s talk will explore the recent turn in religious studies toward “lived religion.” She plans to discuss the methodological and moral concerns that shape her scholarship as an anthropologist working among Latino Catholics in South Phoenix, Arizona.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Douglas Winiarski.

Posted February 25, 2008