By Car: From Storrow Drive, take the Fenway-Kenmore Square exit and turn right onto Beacon Street. Follow Beacon Street about a mile to Carlton Street and turn right onto Carlton. At the first traffic light, take a hard left onto Lenox Street (it is a short, one-way street). CURA is the first building on the left. There is limited parking in the Visitor lot (turn in at the driveway) and there is two-hour on-street parking available in Brookline from 10 a.m. to 6 pm.

By Public Transportation: Take either the “B” or “C” Green line. “B” line: Take the “T” to the Boston University Central stop, walk up St. Mary’s Street (next to Radio Shack) and over the bridge. At the first light, turn right onto Mountfort Street. At the next light (intersection of Carlton Street), Mountfort turns into Lenox Street. Continue straight onto Lenox Street and CURA is the first building on the left. “C” line: Take the “T” to the St. Mary’s stop and walk up St. Mary’s Street to Mountfort Street and take a left at the light. Mountfort turns into Lenox Street at the next set of lights. Continue straight onto Lenox Street and CURA is the first building on the left.

Recent Publications Resulting from CURA Projects

Publications resulting from CURA Projects

Seminar Series-Working Groups

Annual Summer Seminar

Evangelical Intelligentsia

History

Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame

George Marsden, University of Notre Dame

Joel Carpenter, Calvin College

Curtis Evans, University of Chicago

Philosophy

Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University

Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame

Christopher Eberle, U.S. Naval Academy

Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Northwestern University

Sociology

Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nancy Ammerman, Boston University

Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin

John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University

Law

William Stuntz, Harvard Law School

David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Christopher Green, University of Mississippi School of Law

Amos Jones, Bryan Cave LLP, Washington, DC

Younger Evangelicals

Andrew Schuman, Dartmouth College

Amy Reynolds, Princeton University

Jordan Hylden, Duke University

Other Conference Leaders

Peter L. Berger, Boston University

Timothy S. Shah, Council on Foreign Relations and Boston University

James C. Wallace, Boston University

Os Guinness, scholar, author, public intellectual

Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center and U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

John Wilson, Books and Culture, Christianity Today, Inc.

Dana L. Robert, Boston University

Robert W. Hefner, Boston University

D. Michael Lindsay, Rice University

Andrew Chignell, Cornell University

December 7-8, 2007

An increasingly sophisticated, self-assured, and productive class of intellectuals is emerging in American public life — an “evangelical intelligentsia.” These evangelicals, engaged in intellectual pursuits in a way that is motivated by and informed by their faith, are exercising a growing influence on American academics, culture, law, and public policy. This conference, under the auspices of Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), aims to illuminate the development, contributions, and cultural consequences of this emerging generation of American evangelical intellectuals.

Events

The next seminar on religion and world affairs will be a working group.

Tuesday, November 17,  4-5:30 pm

Veronica Savory McComb will speak about her work on “Forging Bonds: Kinship Networks and Religious Communities among Nigerian Immigrants in the United States.”