Contact Project Interfaith, Center for Faith Studies at Countryside Community Church, and the Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation for event and ticket information.
Sunday, October 04, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CT)
Suggested donation $10 per person, Students are free with valid student ID
Join renowned scholar and author Dr. Martin Marty as he defines what constitutes a fundamentalist movement and examines some of the most prominent examples of this in our world today. Dr. Marty will first survey the militant and often lethal challenges to civil order caused by fundamentalist movements in far away places such as India and the Middle East. Dr. Marty then will focus on the fundamentalist movements present in the United States, exploring the often militant, but seldom lethal challenges to believers in many faiths as well as non-believers whose lives are affected by hardline religious movement. By holding up the mirror to fundamentalist movements here and abroad, he will set out to account for such movements, touch on the psychology of those involved, assess the two sets of challenges they bring, and discuss strategies for facing them and--one hopes--transcending them. This community conversation is not designed to be an exercise in fundamentalist-bashing but rather an attempt to understand these movements and how communities respond to the challenges they pose.
About Dr. Martin Marty
A native of West Point, Nebraska, Dr. Marty is one of the most prominent interpreters of religion and culture today. Author of more than 50 books, he is also a speaker, columnist, Lutheran pastor, and teacher, and has served as a professor of religious history for 35 years at the University of Chicago.
This program is part of Project Interfaith's 2009-2010 Community Conversations Annual Speaker Series as well as the 2009-2010 Center for Faith Studies Annual Lecture Series.
Project Interfaith serves as a leader and resouce on interfaith and religious diversity issues. We work with religious groups, educators. corporations, and all members of the community to promote a deeper understanding of and respect for religious diversity through our innovative, community-building programs. Visit our blog at www.projectinterfaith.blogspot.com and our new website at www.projectinterfaithusa.org
Center for Faith Studies at Countryside Community Church provides study of what it means to be the community of people through whom God is experienced. For more information, visit www.countrysideucc.org.
The Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation seeks, develops and supports excellence in Christian leadership
through the Presbyterian Church (USA). For more information, please visit http://omaha-sem-found.org.
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