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Dickinson Distinguished Visitor/"Celebrity" Advanced Seminars

Overview

The Dickinson Advanced Seminar is a unique opportunity for students to focus on the work of a distinguished scholar who has made a significant impact upon the study of religion. The Religion faculty designs the course annually and invites the scholar to visit the Dartmouth campus to engage the students, critique their papers, and present a public lecture to the community.

Semester Faculty Title
Author and School
72S Fred Berthold On the Concept of God: The Work of Schubert Ogden
David Adams Schubert Ogden (Perkins School of Theology, SMU)
Edward Yonan
74W Fred Berthold The Mind/Body Problem in the Thought of H.D. Lewis.
H.D. Lewis (Kings College, University of London)
74F Hans H. Penner The Problem of Understanding Another Religion
Melford Spiro (University of California, San Diego)
76S Ronald M. Green Special Seminar in Paul Ramsey's Ethics
Paul Ramsey (Princeton University)
77S Charles Stinson The Thought of William Christian
William Christian (Yale University)
78S Robert A. Oden Abraham in History and Tradition
William Van Seeters (University of North Carolina)
79S Robert G. Henricks Early Chinese Thought: The Works of Herrlee G. Creel
Herrlee G. Creel (University of Chicago)
80S Nancy Frankenberry Women and Religion: The Writings of Rosemary Radford Ruether
Rosemary Radford Ruether (Garrett Theological Seminary, Northwestern University)
81S Ronald M. Green The Ethical Thought of James Gustafson
James Gustafson (University of Chicago)
82S Fred Berthold Evangelical Christianity
Donald G. Bloesch (Dubuque Theological Seminary)
82F Robert G. Henricks The Hero Pattern and Founders of Religions
Alan Dundes (University of California, Berkeley)
83W Stuart Blackburn The World of Hindu Mythology
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (University of Chicago)
84W Steven Katz Mysticism
Seyyid Hussein Nasr
85W Robert G. Henricks Taoism: The Religion
Michel Strickmann (University of California, Berkeley)
85S Robert A. Oden Ways of Reading the Bible
James Barr (Oxford)
86W Ronald M. Green Roman Catholic Social Thought in the Twentieth Century
Thomas Sanders, Bryan Hehir, David Hollenbeck
87W Robert G. Henricks Chuang-tzu and Early Chinese Thought
Angus C. Graham (SOAS, London)
87S Hans H. Penner Rationality and Ritual
Jonathan Z. Smith (University of Chicago)
88W Robert G. Henricks Chinese Comparative Folk Religion
David K. Jordan (University of California, San Diego)
88F Charles Stinson Themes of Contemporary Christian Thought
Avery Dulles (Catholic University of America)
90S Nancy Frankenberry Plurality and Ambiguity: The Theology of David Tracy
David Tracy (University of Chicago Divinity School)
91S Ronald M. Green Faithful Dissent? The Sexual and Social Ethics of Charles Curran
Charles Curran (Auburn University)
92F A. Kevin Reinhart Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Religion
Wilfred Cantwell Smith (Harvard University)
93W Susan Ackerman Archeology and the Bible
William G. Dever (University of Arizona)
93F Hans H. Penner Magic, Science and Religion: A Study of the Work of S. Tambiah
Stanley Tambiah (Harvard University)
95S Robert G. Henricks Early Chinese Mythology
Sarah Allan (School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, London)
95F Ifi Amadiume Religion, Ritual and Political Power: A Study of the Work of Maurice Bloch
Maurice Bloch (London School of Economics)
98S Hans H. Penner The Deification of Captain Cook, or, Did the Hawaiians Transform Captain Cook into the God Lono? - The Debate Between Obeyesekere & Sahlins
Gananath Obeyesekere (Princeton)
99W Kevin Reinhart Religion and Religious Revolutions
Said Arjomand (SUNY at Stony Brook)
00S Nancy Frankenberry Religion, Science, and Naturalism
Willem B. Drees (University of Twente and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands)
01W Amy Hollywood On Death, Sainthood, and Ethics: Thinking with Edith Wyschogrod
Edith Wyschogrod (Rice University)
01F Susannah Heschel Interpretations of Nazi Evil
Before the 'Final Solution': Nazi Ghettoization Policy in Poland, 1939-1945
Christopher R. Browning (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
03S Kent McConnell Methods to the Study of Religion in the works of Colleen McDannell.
Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography, 1935-1943
Colleen McDannell (University of Utah)
04S Reiko Ohnuma Convents & Courtesans:  Locating Buddhist Nuns in the Cultural & Urban Landscape of Early North India
Gregory Schopen (UCLA)

Last Updated: 7/1/04