RELIGIOUS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
An interdisciplinary exploration of religious and
psychological well-being will take place through an
annual lecture
series, regular meetings of an interdisplinary faculty
research collaboration, graduate seminar, and a series
of publications. Participating professors represent
the disciplines of cognitive science, clinical psychology,
neuroscience, developmental psychology, comparative
religion, theology, and philosophy, and represent the
College of Arts and Sciences, School of Theology, and
School of Medicine. This project is generously funded
by the Metanexus
Institute and the John
Templeton Foundation.
The 2008-2009 lecture series is complete. Please see below for links to view these lectures over the Internet. Details about 2009-2010 lectures will be posted here when available. Please see below
2008-2009: " Psychotherapy, Psychology,
and Spirituality"
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Don S. Browning,
the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of
Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University
of Chicago Divinity School.
Click here for
a biography. |
Sunday 10/26/08
4:oopm "Science, Religion, and a Revived Religious
Humanism."
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
7:30pm "Broadening Psychology, Refining Theology"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
Monday
10/27/08
7:30pm "Change and Critique
in Psychology, Therapy, and Spirituality"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
Sunday 11/16/09
4:00pm "Religion, Science, and the New Spirituality"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
7:30pm "Mental
Health and Spirituality: Their Institutional Embodiments"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
Monday
11/17/09
7:30pm "Institutional Ethics and Families: Therapy,
Law, and Religion"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
2008-2009 Guest Lectures:
Monday, 9/15/08, 7:30pm. Prof. Anne
Harrington (Harvard University). "Eastern
Brains: Probing the Partnership between Buddhism and
the Brain Sciences." (guest
lecture postponed from last year).
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
Monday, 1/26/09, 7:30pm. Dean Hardin
Coleman (Boston University School
of Education). "The
Inter-Generational Transmission of Trauma and Recovery:
The African American Case"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
Monday 3/23/09, 7:30pm. Dr. Connie Chan (U.Mass.-Boston). "Sexuality & Identity:
An Intersection With East Asian Religious & Family
Values"
Please click here to view this lecture over the Internet.
LOCATION: Photonics Center, 9th
Floor Colloquium Room (906)
8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA. For a searchable map, click
here
1.5 CEU credits
per lecture. CEU's offered for
psychologists and social workers. $10 CEU processing
fee per lecture. No preregistration required. Come
early to the lecture to sign-in, and stay afterwards
to complete an evaluation form.
All lectures are recorded, and are made
available for streaming download. Details are posted
to
this web site as they become available.
2007-2008: "Religious Experience from the Ordinary
to the Anomalous".
Please click here for
abstracts and streaming videos of the 2007-2008 lecture
series, which featured 6 lectures by Wesley Wildman.
The following links are provided for more information:
Principal Investigator: Robert Neville
Team Members: Brian McCorkle (Project
Director), Nathaniel Barrett (Project Coordinator),
Sarah Clough (Administrator), Linda Barnes, Deborah
Kelemen, David Eckel, Catherine
Harris-Caldwell, Jon Roberts, Chris Schlauch,
George Stavros,
Wesley Wildman
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