NEXUS

NEXUS: Religion in the Public University – an ongoing series of public lectures on religion, ethics, and spirituality in American society. Lectures are free and open to the public. Each lecture is linked to an intensive dialogue sessions between congregation-based clergy from diverse religious traditions and university-based scholars from a variety of academic fields. Funded by the Lilly Endowment through the Louisville Institute.

For more information about Nexus and other programs sponsored by the UNM Religoius Studies Program, please contact Nexus Project Assistant Stacy Keogh at 277-0016 or Religious Studies Program Administrator Christina Jensen at 277-4009 or email religion@unm.edu.

Future Events

September 19, 2007: Donald Miller on Globalized religious sects

Wednesday, October 24, 2007: Readings TBA

Friday, November 14, 2007: Nancy Ammerman on Congregations

Previous Events

April 19, 2007: "Congregations and Civil Society: A Double-Edged Connection"

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Dr. Jerome Baggett
Professor of Religion and Society at the Jesuit School of Theology and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley

UNM SUB Ballroom B, 12:00 noon

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March 8, 2007:
Clergy-Faculty Dialogue (by invitation only)

Readings: The Writings of Robert Bellah (click here for Reading Guide)

Optional Readings:

February 15, 2006 : Native American Spirituality
Clergy-Faculty Dialogue (by invitation only)

Links to readings:
"The Soft Hearted Sioux"
"Jesus Christ's Half-Brother is Alive and Well"

Reading Guide

October 19, 2006: “Sibling Rivals: Jewish and Christian Understandings of the Chosen People"

Dr. Joel S. Kaminsky
Department of Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College
SUB Theater, Ground Level, 12 noon

April 25, 2006: "Vulnerability, Power, and Medical Decision-making"
Dr. Richard Zaner, Vanderbilt Medical School

April 2 , 2006: "The Left Hand of God"
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine
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March 7, 2006:"Faith and Globalization"
Max Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary
Public lecture: Dr. Martinez Hewlitt (molecular biologist)
Dr. Ted Peters (theologian)

January 31, 2006:"Evolution Wars: Who's Fighting With 
Whom About What?" 
Dr. Ted Peters and Dr. Martinez Hewlett

Readings (click here)

Readings (click here)

November 15, 2005: Islam and America in the World
Public lecture: Dr. Anouar Majid
Reading (click here)

October 28, 2005: Faith in American Culture
Clergy-Faculty Dialogue (by invitation only)
Readings (click here)

September 20, 2005: “The Failure of Environmentalism –
And What Religious Congregations Can Do About It”
Dr. Larry Rasmussen
Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics
Union Theological Seminary in New York
Reading: “Drilling in the Cathedral”