Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC)




Sunbelt Rising: The California Origins of the Modern Evangelical Right Thursday 03/01/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250 Author Darren Dochuk highlights some of the key (and until now, hidden) political dimensions of evangelical conservatism as they emerged in SoCal during the postwar decades. A 21st Century Irish Visionary and His Angry Apparition Wednesday 03/07/2012: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250 Prof. Lisa Bitel presents a paper about Joe Coleman, a Dubliner who has lately been channeling the Virgin Mary at the historic Irish shrine of Knock, County Mayo. Religion on the Move Wednesday 03/21/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 232 A seminar features papers by Thomas Tweed on religion in motion and Rebecca Kim on Korean missionaries in America. Capturing the Experience of Divine Healing with a Video Camera Friday 03/23/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM University Park Campus Egg Company Building Christian Suhr of Denmark’s Aarhus University screens a preliminary version of his film-in-progress for feedback and discussion.

Sunbelt Rising: The California Origins of the Modern Evangelical Right