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February 2005
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Deputy
Chancellor Michael Middleton welcomes
RPP's 2005 senior fellows. Left to
right: Bob Hamm (Business), Greg Manship
(Medicine), Middleton, Dong Pil Yoon
(Social Work), Trish Beckman (Religious
Studies), and Rajendra Kurup (Engineering).
RPP Welcomes Junior and Senior Fellows
The Center for
Religion, the Professions, and the Public
has welcomed its second cadre of senior
and junior fellows. Representing the
disciplines of business, engineering,
medicine, religious studies, and social
work, fellows will spend the spring
semester conducting research, writing,
and participating in a weekly, interdisciplinary
seminar.
Senior fellows
are scholars and practitioners who
have come from as far as Australia
and as close as across the MU campus,
while the junior fellows are drawn
from MU's graduate and professional
schools.
"The Center
is pleased to support the work of
this diverse and energetic group of
scholars," said RPP director Edmund
Lambeth. "We look forward to the exchange
of ideas and the creation of new knowledge
that will occur over the next few
months."
The fellows and
MU faculty colleagues are focused
on projects that enhance professional
education and skills in the areas
of religious and cultural diversity
and professional ethics.
Read
more >> Meet
the 2005 fellows.
RPP
Junior Fellows. Left to right: Fahd
Ahmad (Medicine), Jennifer Miller
(Social Work), Rhetta Standifer (Business),
Scott Dean (Religious Studies), and
John Gall (Engineering).
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Hicks
Douglas
Hicks to Speak March 3
Creativity is
a popular concept in business and other
professional contexts, but the term
means different things to different
people. A March 3 lecture by Douglas
Hicks will examine the ways in which
views of creativity draw upon accounts
of creation and human nature in various
religious traditions.
Dr. Hicks is Associate
Professor of Leadership Studies and
Religion at the University of Richmond's
Jepson School of Leadership Studies
and director of the Bonner Center
for Civic Engagement. Hicks holds
an M.A. and a Ph.D. in religion and
economics from Harvard University.
He is author of Inequality and
Christian Ethics and Religion
and the Workplace.
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more >>
Hicks
Lecture
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Lawless
Elaine
Lawless to Speak April 28
Elaine Lawless
will discuss her research on creative
religious, legal, social, and ethical
responses to domestic abuse on April
28 in RPP's final distinguished lecture
of the semester.
Dr. Lawless is
Curators' Distinguished Professor
of English and Folklore Studies, Women's
Studies, Religious Studies, and Anthropology
at MU. She is the editor of Journal
of American Folklore and author
of several books, including Women
Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through
Narrative, which won the American
Folklore Society's Elli Kongas-Maranda
Prize.
Dr. Lawless' current
research deals with the narratives
of battered women in the Midwest.
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more >>
Lawless
Lecture
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Overholser
Fall
Lectures Draw Large Crowds
Hundreds of
campus and community members attended
RPP lectures as the series "The Roots
of Professional Creativity" kicked
off in September with former Washington
Post ombudsman Geneva Overholser.
Read more >>
William
F. May, former member of the President's
Council on Bioethics discussed tensions
between professionalism and creativity
on October 19.
Read
more >>
Also in October
retired corporate executive Edward
Zinbarg focused on business ethics
and the teachings of the major religions.
Read
more >>
Noted Duke University
researcher Harold G. Koenig
highlighted the relationship between
spirituality and health on November
11.
Read
more >>
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New
Course Examines Journalism, Religion,
and Public Life
A new course
at MU—cross-listed by Journalism,
the Truman School of Public Affairs,
and the Honors College—is exploring
the religious and ethical dimensions
of current issues facing society.
How well journalists cover the social,
political, and international dimensions
of these issues is important not only
to Americans and new American immigrants
but to others across the globe. Dr.
Edmund Lambeth, RPP director and Journalism
Professor Emeritus, developed and
is teaching the course.
Read
more >> Course
Syllabus
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Recent
RPP Faculty and Fellow Publications
Ellis, Mark R.
and Campbell, James D. "Patients' Views
About Discussing Spiritual Issues With
Primary Care Physicians." Southern
Medical Journal 97(12) (2004): 1158-1164.
Ellis, Mark R.
and Campbell, James D. "Concordant
Spiritual Orientations as a Factor
in Physician-Patient Spiritual Discussions:
A Qualitative Study." Journal of
Religion and Health 44(1) (2005):
39-53.
Lambeth, Edmund
B., Christians, Clifford G., Fleming,
Kenneth, and Lee, Seow Ting Lee. "Media
Ethics Teaching in Century 21: Progress,
Problems, and Challenges." Journalism
& Mass Communication Educator
59(3) (2004): 239-258.
Lee, Ilhyung.
"In Re Cultures: The Cross-Cultural
Negotiations Course in the Law School
Curriculum." Ohio State Journal
on Dispute Resolution (forthcoming).
Smith, L. Scott.
"Constitutional Meanings of ‘Religion’
Past and Present: Explorations in
Definition and Theory." Temple
Political and Civil Rights Law Review
(forthcoming).
Smith, L. Scott.
"'Religion Neutral' Jurisprudence:
An Examination of Its Meanings and
End." William & Mary Bill of Rights
Journal (forthcoming).
Sullivan, Barry.
"Naked Fitzies and Iron Cages: Individual
Values, Professional Virtues, and
the Struggle for Public Space." Tulane
Law Review 78(5) (2004): 1687-1718.
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