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The Individual, Community, and Globalization: What is the Role of Religion?
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Sunday, February 23, 2003
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DESCRIPTION
Globalization is the secular ideology and world revolution of the new information age. Like the secular idologies of liberalsim, socialism, and nationalism of the earlier industrial age, globalization has assaulted communities and individuals whose identities are based upon Christian principles and practices. This new global ideology and its world revolution, however, is producing new opportunities for the world religions and for their conceptions of community and the individual. In the midst of this great conflict of worldviews in the 21st century, an essentail guide will be the teachings of Catholic social thought.
Dr. James Kurth |
SPEAKER/PERFORMER INFORMATION
Dr. James Kurth is the Claude Smith Professor of Poltical Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches international politics, foreign policy, and defense policy. He received his A.B. in History from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, and taught at Harvard as an assistant and as an associate professor of government. He has also been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), visiting professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, and visiting professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College.
Professor Kurth is the author of some 80 professional articles and editor of two professional volumes in the fields of international politics, foreign policy, and the politics of Western nations. His recent publications have focused upon the interrelations between the global economy, post-modern society, liberal ideology, and cultural conflicts. In 1998, he delivered the Templeton Lecture on "Religion and Globalization."
LECTURE PREVIEW
SERIES THEME:
Communitas
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