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"What Gets Left
Out: Religious Persecution in Context"
Free
Public Lecture and Book Signing by
Mary Jane Engh
Wednesday,
April 18, 2007, noon
Tucker Forum, 85 Gannett Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Mary
Jane Engh -- author of In the
Name of Heaven: 3,000 Years of Religious
Persecution -- lectures on how
not paying attention to social and
historical context can distort understanding
of events, including religious persecution.
Engh
defines religious persecution as "repressive
actions initiated or condoned by authorities
against their own people on religious
grounds." Her book covers religious
persecutions from Asia, Africa, Europe,
the Middle East and North America
and presents her belief that awareness
makes persecution predictible, and
possibly preventable.
Engh
is a winner of a National Endowment
for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
Grant. As an independent scholar,
she is a winner of the Women's Classical
Caucus Oral Paper Award for 1999,
and is currently working on an extensive
reference work on ancient Roman women.
She
is also the author of three novels,
a children's novel, shorter fiction,
articles and poems.
"Engh
puts her narrative skills to good use
by launching these twenty-two articles
on episodes of religious persecution
throughout the world in an attention-grabbing,
dramatic manner. ... [She] maintains
reader friendliness ... often covering
vast swathes of time remarkably succinctly
.... Unlike the historical figures she
sketches, Engh herself manifests neither
bigotry nor religious partisanship."
- BOOKLIST
Sponsored
by the MU Center for Religion, the
Professions & the Public. For
more information, contact the Center
at (573) 882-2866 or e-mail whiteab@missouri.edu.
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