Colloquia

Abstracts - 2006

The 2006 CAS Colloquium is focused on Thinking About Religion.

• But if there is no spoon, how do I eat my soup? From Nihilism to Enlightenment

• What is Ethics?

• …dšn von Horv‡th and Religion

• Tyrannicide and Martyrdom: Christian Resistance to the Nazis in Alfred Andersch and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• Secularism and the Freedom movements in South Africa and the United States

• Be a Professional?: L. Ron Hubbard?s Philosophy of Art and the Church of Scientology

• Are you there, God? It's me, George.

• Treatment of Women, Children, the Elderly, and Iniduals with Disabilities under Akan Indigenous Religion in Ghana

• Sex and Religion: Is ?Living in Sin? Really a Sin?

• Hinduism American Style: a participation observation of Sri Sathya Sai

• The Influence of Quakerism on Peacemaking Criminology

• Islam and Science

• Religion and values in the language classroom

• The Role of Religiosity and Need for Cognition in the Acceptance of Evolution

• Is God Good for Growth? Religion and National Economic Performance

• Islam and Muslims: Myths and Realities

• Monotheism as a Political Problem

• The American Wedding of Church and State

• Mixed Blessings: Religious Impulse and Linguistic Inquiry?

• Evangelical Fundamentalism, Executive Power and US Foreign Policy

• Lakota Myths of the Winds

• Morality and Pharmaceutical Care

• Thinking about Dogs and Gods

• Disparate Mysteries of Blood: Early Nineteenth Century Cherokee and Moravian Spiritual World Views

• The Sublime Stoicism of Leibniz

• Poetry as Religion

• Before the Genome: Religion and Eugenics from 1900-1945.

• Religion and Politics from within a Religious Perspective: Oikonomia

• Religion in the Workplace and Classroom: Making a Good-Faith Effort to Accommodate

• Neo-Paganism in the 21st Century ? How Goddess Worship has Evolved

• Is There More? An Introduction to Non-canonical Gospels and other Judeo-Christian Writing

• Religion and the Library: Toward Pluralism and Historical Perspective

• (Dis)Empowering the ine

• The Epistles of Saint Rufus to the Churches in Illinois

• Reflections of the Donation of Constantine and Papal auctoritas in the Old Saxon Heliand?

• Athens and Jerusalem

• Sacrifice

• Goddess: Cross-cultural Images of Women

• Political Islam

• Is there a Creator? How would Physics or Natural Philosophy answer?

• The Black Church: Origins in Black Culture, Functions in the Black Community

• The Gospel of Jesus According to Hematology

• Hegel's Politics of Spiritual Expression

• ?ine Design: Sacred Arts of Africa and Asia?: An Ethnographic Museum Exhibit

• A Tale of Two Frauenkirches: The use of religious landscapes in East and West German National Development

• Interpreting Chinese Ancestor Worship: a personal perspective