Religion & Empire
Friday, March 2, 2007 | 7:00-8:30pm
Haddon Conference Room

Rita Nakashima Brock
"Saving Paradise from Crucifixion and Empire"
Sponsored by the Center for Process Studies

Claremont alumna Rita Nakashima Brock [ http://www.faithvoices.org/ritacv.html] returns to campus to speak on issues of nationalism, empire, and religion in the U.S. Dr. Brock currently is Visiting Scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA). She also is co-founder and director of "Faith Voices for the Common Good," a progressive organization that educates about shared values, issues, and ethical concerns of religious people and their organizations.

Dr. Brock is a well respected scholar of feminist theology and women's studies. During 2001-2002, she was a Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Center for Values in Public Life. From 1997-2001, Dr. Brock directed the Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Before her arrival at Harvard, Dr. Brock taught religion and women's studies for 20 years at a number of colleges and universities. From 1985-89, she directed the Women's Studies Program at Stephens College, in Columbia, MO.

Dr. Brock is the author of Journeys By Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power, which won the Crossroads/Continuum Publishing Company award for the most outstanding manuscript in women's studies in 1988. She is the co-author with Susan Thistlethwaite of Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States, which won the Catholic Press Award in Gender Studies in 1996, and the co-author with Rebecca Parker of Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us, published by Beacon Press in 2001 and heralded as a major work in feminist narrative theology.

For more information on her talk, contact the Center for Process Studies ( www.ctr4process.org).