of religion in public life
The question "What is the appropriate role of religion in public life?" will be at the center of a conference taking place Thursday and Friday, Sept. 15 and 16, at the Law School, 127 Wall St.
The event, titled "Religiously Incorrect? Public Faith in a Pluralistic World," is sponsored jointly by the Law School, the Divinity School and the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.
Increasingly, the function of deeply held religious beliefs in the public arena is being raised as a topic of debate, note the conference organizers, pointing as example to the recent discussions over whether Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts's Catholic faith should play a role in his work as a justice. "Religiously Incorrect?" will bring together representatives from law, the ministry and the business community to explore the appropriate role of authentically held religious beliefs in shaping how people make decisions in their professonal lives.
Renowned sociologist of religion Nancy T. Ammerman of Boston University will deliver the opening lecture. Ammerman has spent much of the past decade studying American congregations and previously conducted extensive study of conservative religious movements.
A keynote panel titled "Faith on the Bench," featuring three prominent judges, will be moderated by Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor at Yale Law School, author of "The Culture of Disbelief." The panelists will be Wendell L. Griffen, Arkansas Court of Appeals; Robert H. Henry, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit; and Joan Gottschall, U.S. District Court, Northern Illinois.
Other featured speakers will include former New York Congressman Floyd Flake, senior pastor of the 20,000-member Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Jamaica, New York, and president of Ohio's Wilberforce University; and Mike Volkema, chair and chief executive officer of Herman Miller, a company that has been honored as being among the country's best corporate citizens. Yale participants will include Professor Harlon Dalton of the Law School; Miroslav Volf and David W. Miller, director and executive director respectively of the Divinity School's Center for Faith & Culture; David W. Miller, executive director of the center; and Christian Scharen, director of the center's Faith as a Way of Life Project.
"Religiously Incorrect?" is the second conference in an annual series held under the auspices of the Divinity School's Sarah Smith Conference on Moral Leadership.
Members of the Yale community are welcome to attend all sessions free of charge. Preregistration is required for participants who are not Yale affiliated. More information is available by contacting the Center for Faith and Culture at (203) 432-8629, ycfcinfo@yale.edu and at the conference website www.yale.edu/faith/initiatives/smc_2005.html.
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