The Madawaska Institute for Culture and Religion
Where The Spirit and Life meet.
Saving Paradise
with Rita Nakashima Brock
April 17 to 19, 2008
Rita Nakashima Brock is a research associate at the Harvard Divinity School, and author of Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power.
Her current book project, Saving Paradise, investigates early Christian ideas of paradise, the development of theologies of holy war and holy violence in Western Europe during the Crusades, the resulting invention of racism and genocide, the colonization of the Americas, and the contemporary need for a new understanding of paradise. She will give a reading and signing of her new book and then expand it on the 18 and 19th. Cost $300
Proverbs of Ashes : Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker (Paperback - Nov. 18, 2002)
Saving Paradise by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker
Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States by Rita Nakashima Brock and Susan B. Thistlethwaite
Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power by Rita Nakashima Brock
Setting the Table: Women in Theological Conversation by Rita Nakashima Brock, Claudia Camp, and Serene Jones
Off the Menu:
Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology by Rita Nakashima Brock, Jung Ha Kim, Kwok Pui-Lan, and Seung Ai Yang
For members there is a 10% reduction for each event. To join a yearly membership is $30 payable to Madawaska Institute. To pre registrar for the Brock event you can do that with your membership.
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