Dr. Douglas Johnston, "Faith-based Diplomacy: Bridging the Religious Divide"      
October 4, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m. 
 
Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the NHIOP and the New Hampshire Humanities Council

Dr. Douglas Johnston, president and founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy and led the seven-year study that produced the book, Religion, The Missing Dimension of Statecraft, now in its 13th printing.

This event is open to the public free of charge.

 
Dr. David Campbell, "God Talk in 2008: Religion and the Upcoming Election"      
October 18, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m. 
 
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the NHIOP

Campbell (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002) is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Initiatives. His recent book, Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life, demonstrates how communities foster civic norms, and how civic norms adopted in adolescence can lead to a lifetime of civic engagement. He is also the editor of A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election.
 
 
Past Lecture

“Sister Societies: A Story of Women, Antislavery, Religion, and Politics in Antebellum America,” Dr. Beth Salerno, History Department, Saint Anselm College