Each year, IARPT’s journal, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, hosts a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. This year, the AJTP will be hosting a panel on a recently published volume celebrating the work of Wesley J. Wildman. The title of the volume is Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Approaches to Wesley J. Wildman (SUNY Press, 2021), edited by F. LeRon Shults and Robert C. Neville.
April 1, 2020
To All IARPT Members and Affiliates:
As many of you may have guessed, we will not be meeting in St. Paul this June 15-19. Due to the COVID-19 public health crisis, there will be no IARPT 2020. However, the Board has made the decision to move the program to June 14-18, 2021 in St. Paul, Minnesota. After a lot of hard work, Co-Chairs Andrew Irvine and Austin Roberts have put together a splendid program that will be just as fresh and relevant fourteen months from now. As Demian Wheeler points out, “we’ll still be living in the Anthropocene in 2021!” Mike Hogue’s book will be every bit as urgent a year from now, and William Connolly has tentatively committed to moving his keynote address to 2021. Andrew and Austin may tweak the program a little, but they will honor the acceptances they have recently sent out. If your paper proposal or panel will change, please be in touch with Andrew and Austin. And I’m so pleased to tell you that we will once again be in the good hands of our local hosts in the Twin Cities, Bill Hart and Demian Wheeler. I want to thank them all—Andrew and Austin, Bill and Demian—for the thoughtfulness and dedication they have put into every detail of planning. And for their willingness to do it all again!
This June’s Board of Governors meeting and Business Meeting Thursday were to be my last before turning it over to the next President, Michael Raposa. Rest assured that I am committed to providing continuity in leadership and will work with Michael (and the Board, which is due for some turnover) through the summer. He is a quick study, anyway.
IARPT runs so smoothly because of the hard work, trustworthiness, and administrative talent of our Treasurer, Dan Ott. I want to take a moment and say Thank You Dan! We are glad to see that Monmouth College recognizes your skills, too, and has appointed you Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives. Dan will be offering those who paid registration for 2020 either a postponement or a reimbursement, whichever you prefer. Please let him know.
I sincerely hope that each of you is finding ways to center yourself and those in your networks as we all struggle with multiple rapidly changing situations. I encourage you to prioritize your health right now—mental, physical, spiritual—individually and collectively.
Until we meet again, stay safe and healthy, and all my best!
Nancy
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John Phillips Professor in Religion Emeritus, Dartmouth College
President, Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (2016-2020)
Dear IARPT members:
One of the distinctive hallmarks of IARPT is the face-to-face fellowship and intellectual exchange we enjoy in remarkable settings. We do not wish to compromise any of that this year.
COVID-19 has presented a unique public health challenge that requires constant monitoring. Information about the spread of COVID-19, federal and state guidelines, and other factors beyond our control are evolving and surfacing at a breakneck pace right now.
In this environment, the Board of Governors of IARPT has made the decision to wait and see. Our conference is now three months away. We will make an assessment again in a few weeks, and then again on May 15 in the hope that circumstances will enable us to convene June 15-20, 2020 in Saint Paul. Some of you have already purchased airlines tickets, and others are waiting to hear or have already heard about scholarship assistance. We are extending the deadline for applications for a Creighton Peden Scholarship until May 15. You do not need to wait until then to make reservations since most airlines are currently displaying the kind of flexibility they should always show, making refunds or re-bookings available if cancellation is necessary.
In the meantime, Andrew Irvine and Austin Roberts are putting together a stimulating program, and local hosts Bill Hart and Demian Wheeler have done an excellent job in lining up the venues in which we can comfortably talk, argue, shout, agree and disagree, eat and drink, be transported, and yes, sleep.
Please check the website (iarpt.org) for further updates.
I encourage you all to remain vigilant, agile, and optimistic despite the unknowns associated with this pandemic.
Nancy Frankenberry for the Board of Governors
Nancy K. Frankenberry
John Phillips Professor in Religion Emeritus, Dartmouth College
President, Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (2016-2020)
We are pleased to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism, co-edited by two longtime members of IARPT: Donald Crosby and Jerome Stone. Continue reading New Publication: The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism
SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
The American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought (AIPCT) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship. The FPC Fellow must be in residence at the AIPCT in Murphysboro, IL, from June 1 until August 2, and will receive housing and $1000 per month, plus a travel stipend of $200. The FPC Fellow will carry out research on the dissertation (the idea is to finish a chapter while there). The dissertation can be in any discipline in the humanities or social sciences, so long as the topic of the research relates to theoretical ideas about creativity, broadly construed. The dissertation need not be wholly concerned with creativity, but the portion of the research carried out at AIPCT must be related to creativity. Around August 1 the FPC Fellow will present the research at AIPCT in a public lecture. Among the criteria considered by the selection committee is how well the project fits with the holdings and emphasis of AIPCT (American Philosophical and Cultural Thought) acheter kamagra oral jelly en ligne. Continue reading AIPCT Summer Dissertation Fellowship
Dear Colleague in the Academic Study of Religion,
In his 2015 Presidential Address to the American Academy of Religion, Thomas Tweed asserted that a “values approach can clarify divisive internal debates within the AAR, especially between those who identify with theology and those who identify with religious studies, and … disclose points of agreement as we refine the arguments we employ to defend the study of religion in the public arena and on our own campuses.” The four of us (signatures below) share that hope and invite you to participate in a survey – the VISOR survey – that will allow us actually to test Tweed’s claims. Continue reading Invitation to Survey on the Role of Values in the Study of Religion
IARPT congratulates Gary Dorrien, who was named the recipient of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. Continue reading Gary Dorrien Wins 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL AND CULTURAL THOUGHT
The AIPCT Announces its Grand Opening and Inaugural Lecture
Dr. Larry A. Hickman
“Humanism, the Humanities, and Technoscience”
Introduction, John R. Shook, President, AIPCT
Monday, November 21, 2016 at 7:00 PM
411 N. 9th Street, Murphysboro, IL
618-565-1238
Open to the Public (no reservation or RSVP needed)
The Institute will open at 5:30, refreshments will be served, and the lecture will be followed by a reception and tours. Parking is in the rear of the house (down the alley) and on the streets in the neighborhood.
The AIPCT has applied for 501c3 status in the State of Illinois. You may contact us at 618-565-1238, or by e-mail at personalist61@gmail.com.
We are saddened to report the death of William Creighton Peden, III. He passed away at his home in Highlands, NC on August 25, 2016. Creighton was the Fuller E. Callaway Professor emeritus of Philosophy at Augusta University as well as co‑founder and 21‑year president of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. Continue reading IARPT Mourns Creighton Peden