Religion and the Liberal Arts

   

James Davidson Hunter presents the keynote address.		Josh Tatum, Wabash '03, participates in the discussion considering the question, can one be liberally educated without having religious literacy?

    
Organizers:
Stephen Ainley, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College and Professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross.

James Davison Hunter, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and Religious studies at the University of Virginia, providing the keynote address–On the Moral Purposes of Higher Education. [Click HERE for a summary of his presentation.]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Phi Beta Kappa was the co-sponsor of this colloquy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For a summary of this meeting, you may download an Adobe Acrobat file, pbk3_summary.pdf, a 283 kb file.

Participants:
Stephen Ainlay, Holycross College
Anne Bost, Center of Inquiry
Michael Beaty, Baylor Univeristy
Michael Birkel, Earlham College
Paula Brownlee, The Presidents' Group, LLC
Ed Chan, Center of Inquiry
John Churchill, Phi Beta Kappa
Mauri Ditzler, Wabash College
Margaret Falls-Corbitt, Hendrix College
Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash College
Richard Hughes, Pepperdine University
James Davison Hunter, University of Virginia
Stanton Jones, Wheaton College
Penny Marler, Samford University
Nicholas Meyers, Wabash College*
Esther Merves, Association of American Colleges and Unversities
Warren Nord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Julie Reuben, Harvard University
Mark Schwehn, Valparaiso University
Josh Tatum, Wabash College*

*Wabash students who participated in the Saturday morning discussions.