Fourth Biennial Symposium
on Religion and Politics
The Henry Institute
Calvin College
April 24-26, 2008
Program Schedule
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Thursday, April 24
Thursday, April 24 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Welcome and Light Buffet
Location: Blue Spruce/Elm
Thursday, April 24 7:15 – 9:00 p.m.
Panel 1A: Religion and Contemporary American Politics
Location: White Pine
Chair: Neil Carlson, Calvin College
Competing Frameworks: The American Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Media, and the Politics of Immigration
Todd Scribner, The Catholic University of America, 81Scribner@cua.eduFaithful Citizenship, 2004-2008: U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Evolving Engagement with American Politics
Steven Millies, University of South Carolina Aiken, stevenm@usca.eduEvangelicals in the Iowa Caucuses: Issue Voting and the Iraq War
Kimberly Conger, Iowa State University, conger@iastate.edu
Discussant: Neil Carlson, Calvin College, nec4@calvin.edu
Panel 1B: Religion and the Politics of Human Rights
Location: Hickory
Chair: Amy Edmonds, Baylor University
The Lullaby of Argus Panoptes: Toward a Conversation on Cosmology in Universal Human Rights
Rob Joustra, Redeemer University College, rjoustra@wrf.caChurch-State Ties and Democratization: Catholic Human Rights Advocacy during Latin American Civil Wars
Nick Rowell, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, nrowell@unm.eduThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Rhetorical War on Human Rights Violation
Amanada Stek, Calvin College, amanda.stek@gmail.com
Discussant:
Amy Edmonds, Baylor University, amy_edmonds@baylor.edu
Panel 1C: Philosophical Reflections on Religion and Public Life
Location: Maple
Chair: Gordon Babst, Chapman University
Resentment and Transcendence
Nathan Colborne, Nipissing University, nathanc@nipissingu.eduThe Popular English Reformation
Tim Perenich, Andrews University Theological Seminary, Tp161@hotmail.comDimensions to Understanding ‘Natural Law’ in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas
Weiwei (Daisy) Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, zweizi@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Discussant: Gordon Babst, Chapman University, gbabst@chapman.edu
Friday, April 25
Friday, April 25 8:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Panel 2A: Religion and Civic Engagement
Location: Willow East
Chair: Chris McHorney, California Baptist University
Powerful Benevolence: Reflections on Religious Humanitarian Aid and its Consensus with the State
Amanda Napoli, Baylor University, Amanda_Napoli@baylor.eduThe Impact of Church-based Politicized Social Capital on Black Political Activism
R. Khari Brown, Wayne State University, kharib@wayne.eduFaith as a Political Resource: Investigating Congregational Motivations for Engagement in Faith-based Community Organizing
Kristin Geraty, Indiana University, kgeraty@indiana.edu
Discussant: Chris McHorney, California Baptist Univ., cmchorney@calbaptist.edu
Panel 2B: Religion and the Perception of Others
Location: Willow West
Chair: Joel Westra, Calvin College
Islam: The Other World on the Fringe of Fear
Galip Beygu Isen and Ozge Ozyilmas, Istanbul Bilgi University, gbisen@bilgi.edu.tuEvil or “Evil”? Morality, Threat and American Foreign Policy
Mary Manjikian, Regent University, mmanjikian@regent.eduDiscussant: Joel Westra, Calvin College, jhw3@calvin.edu
Panel 2C: An Agenda for Evangelical Political Thought
Location: Hickory
Chair: Paul Brink, Gordon College
Panelists:
Jesse Covington, Westmont College, jcovington@westmont.edu
Bryan McGraw, Emory University (beginning Fall 2008; Wheaton College), btmcgraw@gmail.com
Micah Watson, Union University, watsonianworks@gmail.com
Discussant: Paul Brink, Gordon College, paul.brink@gordon.edu
Friday, April 25 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
Location: Fireside Room
Friday, April 25 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Panel 3A: Clergy and Contemporary American Politics
Location: Willow East
Chair: Christine Brickman, Catholic University of America
Political and Social Action among American Clergy: A Study of Twenty American Christian Denominations
James Guth, Furman University, jim.guth@furman.eduLutherans in the 21st Century: Theology, Politics, and Worship Practice
Jeff Walz, Concordia University Wisconsin, jeff.walz@cuw.eduFaith and Politics: Political Engagement among Pastors in Wilmington, Delaware
Brian Coleman, brianco2@sp2.upenn.edu and Ram Cnaan, cnaan@sp2.upenn.edu, Univ. of PennsylvaniaDiscussant:: Christine Brickman, Catholic Univ. of America, 63brickman@cua.edu
Panel 3B: Democratic Life and the Incorporation of “Minority” Religious Groups
Location: Blue Spruce
Chair: Bert de Vries, Calvin College
Hamas’s Incentives: Violent & Religious Markets in Gaza
Amy Underkofler, University of Washington, amyunder@u.washington.eduEmbracing a Common Destiny: Toward a One-State Solution in Israel-Palestine”
Phil Jackson, Calvin College, pdj2@calvin.eduChristian Responsibility for International Peace: A Case Study of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Kristine Tuinstra, Calvin College, krt3@calvin.edu
Discussant: Bert de Vries, Calvin College, DVRB@calvin.edu
Panel 3C: Author Meets “Critics”: Discussion of Theology, Political
Theory, and Pluralism by Kristen Deede Johnson (Cambridge)
Location: Hickory
Chair: Jonathan Chaplin, Kirby Lang Institute for Christian Ethics
Paul Brink, Gordon College, paul.brink@gordon.edu
Jonathan Chaplin, Kirby Lang Institute for Christian Ethics, KLICE@tyndale.cam.ac.uk
Chris Miller, Institute for Christian Studies, CMiller@icscanada.edu
Kristen Deede Johnson, Hope College, johnsonk@hope.edu
Friday, April 25 12:45p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch
Location: White Pine/Maple
Friday, April 25 2:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Panel 4A: Issues Related to Church and State in the American Setting
Location: Willow East
Chair: Kathryn Lee, Eastern University
A Holy Secular Institution
Perry Dane, Rutgers University School of Law—Camden, dane@crab.rutgers.eduFederalism, Church-State Relations, and the Significance of State Blaine Amendments
David Ryden, Hope College, ryden@hope.eduReligiosity and Tolerance in the Public Square: Attitudes toward the Relationship of Church and State in the United States
Traci L. Nelson, University of Pittsburgh, tln10@pitt.edu
Discussant: Kathryn Lee, Eastern University, klee@eastern.edu
Panel 4B: Religion, Economic Life, and Political Development
Location: Willow West
Chair: Kurt Schaefer, Calvin College
Max Weber and Islam: The Paradox of Economic Development in Islamic Societies
Ayman Reda, Grand Valley State University, redaa@gvsu.eduReligion and Life Satisfaction among Nations
Lauren Deschamps, University of Notre Dam, ldescham@nd.eduPublic Religion and Its Application in China
Yinghua Liu, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, yhl9@hotmain.com
Discussant: Kurt Schaefer, Calvin College, schk@calvin.edu
Panel 4C: Religion, Authority, and Tolerance
Location: Hickory
Chair: J. Daryl Charles, Princeton University
The Dawn of the Age of Toleration: Samuel Pufendorf and the Road Not Taken
Nicholas Miller, Andrews University Seminary, nmiller@freedom-law.comOn the Legal Toleration of Belief and Behavior
Kyle Swan, National University of Singapore, phisk@nus.edu.sgUnderstanding Authority: Exploring its Relationship to Power and Office
David Koyzis, Redeemer University College, dkoyzis@redeemer.eduDiscussant: J. Daryl Charles, Princeton University, jdcharle@princeton.edu
Panel 4D: Religion and Public Policy
Location: Blue Spruce
Chair: Paul Cornish, Grand Valley State University
The Common Good and Education Policy in a Religiously Pluralist Society
Sarah Vester, Calvin College, sarah.vester@gmail.comAnd Who is My Neighbor? Religion and Attitudes toward Immigration Policy
Benjamin Knoll, University of Iowa, benjamin-knoll@uiowa.eduThe Public Value of Religion
Craig Engelhardt, Baylor University, craig_engelhardt@baylor.edu
Discussant: Paul Cornish, Grand Valley State University, cornishp@gvsu.edu
Friday, April 25 3:45p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Refreshment Break
Location: Fireside Room
Friday, April 25 4:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Panel 5A: Religion and American Political Institutions
Location: Willow East
Chair: Jim Guth, Furman University
Religious Adherence and Equality in American Political Representation
Kasey Swanke, University of Notre Dame, kswanke@nd.eduThe Role of the Solicitor General in Church-State Cases within the Clinton and Bush Administrations: A Case Study Supporting the Politicization of the Solicitor General
Andrew Lewis, American University, al3978a@american.eduReligiosity and Government Corruption in the American States
Pat Flavin, pflavin@nd.edu, and Richard Ledet, rledet@nd.edu, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Jim Guth, Furman University, jim.guth@furman.edu
Panel 5B: Religion and Politics in Latin America
Location: Willow West
Chair: Amy Patterson, Calvin College
The Dissident Cross: Catholicism and Political Confrontation in Cuba
Robert A. Portada, University of Notre Dame, rportada@nd.eduProtestantism and Radicalism in Mexico from the 1860s to the 1930s
Daniel Miller, Calvin College, mill@calvin.edu
One Church, Two Paths: Explaining the Divergent Responses of the Chilean and Argentine Churches to Military Repression
Amy Edmonds, Baylor University, Amy_Edmonds@baylor.eduDiscussant: Amy Patterson, Calvin College, apatters@calvin.edu
Panel 5C: Religion and Social Issues
Location: Hickory
Chair: Steven Millies, University of South Carolina Aiken
The Social Teaching of Benedict XVI
Michael Coulter, Grove City College, MLCoulter@gcc.eduBuyer Beware: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Warning and Consumer Culture
Brandon Wentworth, Auburn University, wentwbl@auburn.eduDietrich Bonhoeffer’s Political Truth and the Intimate Consequences of American Murder and Capital Punishment
James D. Slack, University of Alabama at Birmingham, jslack@uab.eduDiscussant: Steven Millies, Univ. of South Carolina Aiken stevenm@usca.edu
Panel 5D: Islam and Democratic Life in the West
Location: Blue Spruce
Chair: Tracy Kuperus, Calvin College
The Politicization of Religion in the West: Assessing the Effects of Policy Legacies and Government Construction on European Islam
Kathryn Gardner, University of Notre Dame,klawall1@nd.edu
Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East in Presidential Memory: Carter in Comparative Perspective
D. Jason Berggren, University of Georgia,djberggren@hotmail.eduDiscussant: Tracy Kuperus, Calvin College, tlk5@calvin.edu
Friday, April 25 6:15 – 7:45 p.m.
Dinner
Location: White Pine/Maple
Saturday, April 26
Saturday, April 26 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Panel 6A: Religion and the American Civil Rights Movement
Location: Willow East
Chair: Doug Koopman, Calvin College
Identification and Prophetic Rage: Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement
James M. Patterson, University of Virginia, jmp3r@virginia.eduThe Jericho Road and the Beloved Community: The Radical Vision of James Lawson
Stephen Shaw, Northwest Nazarene University, skshaw@nnu.edu
Discussant: Doug Koopman, Calvin College, dkoopman@calvin.edu
Panel 6B: Religion and Politics in Orthodox Settings
Location: Willow West
Chair: Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University
Russian Orthodoxy under Putin: ‘Managed Democracy’ and the New Symphonia
John Anderson, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, jpa@st-andrews.ac.ukReligious Affiliation and Its Implications for Political Orientations in Romania
Claudiu Herteliu, Alexandru Isaic-Maniu, and Bogdan Vasile Ileanu, University of Economics, Bucharest, Romania, claudiu.herteliu@gmail.comDiscussant: Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University, v.karpov@wmich.edu
Panel 6C: Philosophical Reflections on Religion and Politics
Location: Hickory
Chair: Murray Jardine, Auburn University
Is “Religion” a Good Idea?
Gary Glenn, Northern Illinois University, gglenn@wpo.cso.niu.eduThe Theological-Political Problem: An Arendtian Response
Gordon Babst, Chapman University,gbabst@chapman.edu
Discussant: Murray Jardine, Auburn University, jardimu@auburn.edu
Saturday, April 26 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break
Location: Fireside Room
Saturday, April 26 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Panel 7A: Evangelicals and American Politics
Location: Willow East
Chair: Kim Conger, Iowa State University
From William Jennings Bryan to Jerry Falwell: The Evangelical Discovery of Conservatism
Christine Brickman, The Catholic University of America, 63brickman@cua.eduAre Evangelicals an Ethnic Group?
Ron Stockton, University of Michigan-Dearborn, rstock@umich.eduThe Religion of Fear: The Politics of Fright in Conservative Evangelicalism
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Jcbivins@unity.ncsu.eduDiscussant: Kim Conger, Iowa State University, conger@iastate.edu
Panel 7B: Religion and Politics in the United States
Location: Willow West
Chair: Andrew Schlewitz, Albion College
Religious Identity and Political Participation in the Mennonite Church USA
Kyle Kopko, Ohio State University, kopko.5@osu.edu
Explaining Citizen Support for Teaching Creationism in Public Schools
John Clark, Western Michigan University, john.clark@wmich.edu
Race, Faith, and the ‘New’ Republican Party
Kenya Davis-Hayes, California Baptist University, kdavis@calbaptist.edu
Discussant: Andrew Schlewitz, Albion College, aschlewitz@albion.edu
Panel 7C: Religion and Democractic Theory
Location: Hickory
Chair: Matthew Mendham, University of Notre Dame
The Virtue of Obedience and the Civil Conversation in Aquinas: Some Convergence with the Contemporary Trends in Democratic Theory
Paul Cornish, Grand Valley State University, cornishp@gvsu.eduReal Reasons for Publicizing Religion
Louis Benjamin Rolsky, Claremont School of Theology, benjir@prodigy.netAt a Distance to the State: Radical Democracy and Religion
Geoffrey Holsclaw, Marquette University, geoffrey.holsclaw@marquette.edu
Discussant Matthew Mendham, Univ. of Notre Dame, mmendham@nd.edu
Saturday, April 26 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Location: White Pine/Maple
Saturday, April 26 1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Panel 8A: Religion and Political Issues in Historical Perspective
Location: Willow East
Chair: Jason Duncan, Aquinas College
The New England Society for the Suppression of Vice and Late Nineteenth-Century Moral Reform
Paul C. Kemeny, Grove City College, pckemeny@gcc.eduThe Irony of Methodist Conflict: Northern Methodists and the Civil War
Douglas Montagna, Grand Valley State University, montagnd@gvsu.eduDiscussant: Jason Duncan, Aquinas College, duncjas@aquinas.edu
Panel 8B: Religion and Civic Responsibility
Location: Willow West
Chair: Corwin Smidt, Calvin College
A Report on the Findings of:
Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America
Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, smid@calvin.edu
James Penning, Calvin College, penn@calvin.edu
Kevin den Dulk, Grand Valley State University, dendulkk@gvsu.edu
Saturday, April 26 3:00 p.m.
Closing Refreshment Break
Location: Fireside Room
For Saturday Overnight Guests (Optional Activities)
Visit to Ford Presidential Museum
Dinner Downtown
Copies of papers presented at the Symposium are available in the Library of the Prince Conference Center during the Symposium.