Minns Lecture at Meadville Lombard: March 27, 2007 

March 14, 2007

Meadville Lombard is thrilled to host Branden Thornhill-Miller as he presents the fifth in a series of six lectures sponsored by the Minns Lecture Committee on March 27, at 5:30 p.m.

The lecture series is The Experience of Religious Varieties: Psychology of Religion for the 21st Century. The lecture to be presented at Meadville is:

Challenges for the Psychology of Religion:
Fundamentalism, Meaning-Making, and the Future of Religion
Taken together, globalization, fundamentalism, cultural conflict, and our vastly expanded scientific powers over the physical world may pose the most serious long-term threat to the survival of humanity. This talk will explore how the psychology of religion can help us better understand this dangerous cultural cocktail and the crisis of meaning-making that is at its core.

Thornhill-Miller is Lecturer and Director of Studies in psychology at Hertford and Harris Manchester Colleges, Oxford University, England. His teaching includes the psychology of religion and psychology for ministry, as well as individual differences and creativity. At the Boston Theological Institute, he was Director of the Inter-religious Dialogue Program.  He was one of 23 scholars from around the world invited to Seattle by the Foundation for the Future to discuss problems and possibilities facing humanity's long-term future. He graduated from Yale, and has a master's degree in world religions and psychology from Harvard.

For a list and descriptions of the full series, click here.

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Contact:
Tina Porter tporter@meadville.edu
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