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MARIAL CENTER COLLOQUIUM (Professor of sociology of religion, Boston University; president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) Narrating Religion: Linking Families, Religious Communities, and Everyday Life Wednesday, March 9, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. This talk will focus on the possible ways families use the stories and experiences of their religious communities to interpret and navigate their way through the world. Working from ideas about how narratives construct identities, Dr. Ammerman will lay out some of the questions she hopes to explore in the project "Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life." This project proposal is under consideration at the Templeton Foundation, and, if funded, will involve collaboration between Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs and the MARIAL Center. Dr. Ammerman is professor of sociology of religion at Boston University, with appointments in the school of theology and the department of sociology. From 1995-2003 she taught at Hartford Seminary, and from 1984-95, at Emory’s Candler School of Theology. She has also held part-time and visiting appointments in the departments of sociology at Yale and Princeton and in the department of religion at Columbia University. During the 1993-94 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University. Dr. Ammerman has spent much of the last decade studying American congregations. Her book Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their Partners, will be published in early 2005 by University of California Press. It analyzes the common patterns that shape the work of America’s diverse communities of faith. Her 1997 book, Congregation and Community (Rutgers University Press), tells the stories of twenty-three congregations that encountered various forms of neighborhood change in communities around the country She collaborated with MARIAL core faculty member Nancy Eiesland on that project and to co-edit Studying Congregations: A New Handbook (Abingdon, 1998). In 1993, Dr. Ammerman served on the panel of experts convened by the U. S. Departments of Justice and Treasury to make recommendations after the government's confrontation with the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. In 1995, she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the same subject. Dr. Ammerman earned her Ph.D. from Yale University and is president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER
The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor of the main building of Emory's Briarcliff Campus, 1256 Briarcliff Road. There is ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may take the Emory shuttle (Route A). The Emory shuttle (Route A) provides transportation from the main campus to the MARIAL Center every 20 minutes (a 5-10 minute ride). For the shortest travel time, board the shuttle in front of the B. Jones Center or at the corner of Dowman and Fishburne (across from Glenn Memorial) at approximately 4, 24, and 44 minutes after each hour. A complete schedule and the route map are available on the web at http://www.epcs.emory.edu/AltTransp/route-a.htm Please tell the receptionist at the front window
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