Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Relevant Religion Series

March 23, March 30, and April 6, 2010
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Cost $10 per person

Location
Trinity Presbyterian Church
3201 Hillsboro Road
Nashville, TN 37215

Lectures by
C. Melissa Snarr
Assistant Professor of Ethics and Society

Religion, War, and Reconciliation

Professor Snarr's writing, teaching, and community involvements center on the intersection of religion, social change and social/political ethics. She teaches courses ranging from "Modern Christian Political Thought" and "Religion and War in an Age of Terror" to "Religion and Social Movements." Her work employs a variety of methodologies within Christian social ethics, comparative ethics (focused on Islamic political thought), philosophical ethics, and sociological theory that continually place the construction of normative commitments in conversation with socio-historical context.
Her most recent book, Social Selves and Political Reforms, focuses on Christian views of moral formation and their affect on political engagement. Her current book project (and activist engagement) explores the role of gender and religion in the U.S. living wage movement. She has also published generally in the area of feminist theological ethics.
Religion, War, and Reconciliation

The twentieth century was one of the most violent on record and new forms of terrorism and warfare continue to define the beginning of the twenty-first century. This series will explore the role of religion (specifically Christianity and Islam) in contemporary warfare and peacemaking. We will ask when/if war is religiously justifiable? In what ways does religion contribute to terrorism? What are the practices and possibilities of religiously attuned peacemaking and post-conflict reconciliation?

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