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Iran's Joan of Arc?
Reactions to Neda Agha-Soltan shooting reveal how we make sense of history
June 25,
2009 --
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| Julie Singer |
The shooting death last Saturday of Neda Agha-Soltan has emerged, thanks to video widely circulated on the Internet, as a potent symbol of Iran's antigovernment movement. In the news media and in private postings across the Web, Agha-Soltan has been memorialized as a victim, a martyr and — perhaps most hauntingly to Western ears — as "Iran's Joan of Arc." Yet while fitting in some ways, that comparison says less about either Agha-Soltan or the 15th-century French saint than it does about our own need to make sense of the present through comparison with the past, says Julie Singer, Ph.D., assistant professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis.
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It's OK, Notre Dame
Catholic leadership divided over Obama's Notre Dame speech, expert suggests
May 16,
2009 --
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| Frank Flinn |
Notre Dame University's decision to invite President Obama to deliver the university's commencement address on Sunday has sparked strong protests from groups who disagree with Obama's stand on abortion and stem cell research. Despite condemnation of Obama's speech by a number of prominent American bishops, the Vatican may be more interested in moderation and conciliation in its dealings with Obama, suggests Frank K. Flinn, a close observer of religious politics and author of the Encyclopedia of Catholicism (2007).
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The birth of Christianity
Schäfer to give annual Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies
Feb. 24,
2009 -- Peter Schäfer, Ph.D., the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, will present the 2009 Adam Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies, "Why Did Baby Messiah Disappear? The Birth of Christianity From the Spirit of Judaism," at 7 p.m. March 19 in Wilson Hall, room 214.
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Missteps of a Pope
Benedict XVI has "lost his direction" in relation to recent exonerations
Feb. 10,
2009 --
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| Frank Flinn |
Pope Benedict XVI's decision to lift the excommunication of British Bishop Richard Williams, along with three other bishops appointed by an ultra-conservative archbishop more than 20 years ago, has created controversy around the world. Williams has said he believes no Jews were killed by gas chambers during World War II. Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences and expert on Catholicism, says this is the latest in series of blunders that are coming to define Benedict's papacy.
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Marriage vs. civil union
Let churches handle marriage, suggests expert
Dec. 11,
2008 --
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| Frank K. Flinn |
In November, California citizens passed Proposition 8 upholding the idea that marriage is defined as and limited to the union of one man with one woman. The vote has given encouragement to many in other states who want to pass similar legislation. The United States is about to enter a period of legal upheaval on the question of marriage in the civil law, suggests Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences. His proposal? Give marriage to the churches and let the state define civil unions.
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Religion and politics
Joe Biden, abortion and the Catholic vote
Oct. 24,
2008 --
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is telling the Catholics in his audiences that St. Thomas Aquinas had a different teaching on abortion than the current pope and his immediate predecessors. He's right, says Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences. Flinn is author of the Encyclopedia of Catholicism (2007).
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St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Architectural competition reinvents abandoned children's theater
Oct. 15,
2008 --
St. Francis de Sales church, popularly known as "the Cathedral of South St. Louis," has been a local landmark since the end of the Civil War, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. This fall five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children's theater, located on the church's six-building campus, as part of the Sam Fox School's Community Service Competition. Winners of the competition will be announced Oct. 17 at a reception in Givens Hall.
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The vitality of Iranian life
"Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran"
Feb. 1,
2008 --
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| Fatemeh Keshavarz |
In her most recent book, "Jasmine and Stars," Keshavarz blends personal memoir with literary analysis and social commentary to break pervasive Western stereotypes of Iranians.
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Faith in Schools?
Government should pay for religious schools, regulate what is taught, argues new book.
Dec. 17,
2007 --
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| "Faith in Schools?" is focus of new book by WUSTL's Ian MacMullen. |
Arguing that democratic principles do not support a strict separation of church and state in educational policy, a new book contends that government has both the responsibility to pay for religious schools and the right to regulate what's taught within them.
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British scholar Janet Browne explores Darwin
British scholar Janet Browne explores Charles Darwin and the economy of nature for the Assembly Series
Nov. 5,
2007 -- British historian of science Janet Browne continues to explore Darwin's evolutionary idea.
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