The Gap in God’s Country: Themes and Discussion With Laurie M. Johnson
Series Dates: November 18, December 2 and 9, January 6 and 20 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom
Laurie’s newly published book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars was recently published and sessions with the author are starting in November (Nov. 18, Dec. 2 & 9, Jan. 6 & 20). To attend, join the Maurin Academy Patreon at the $5 or $10 levels, or register on Eventbrite for $20 for all five sessions, or a donation of your choice.
From the author:
In these sessions, I want to let people know why my book is different from many others that claim to explain our difficult and often ugly moment in time. For one thing, I offer practical solutions—and that is something everyone always asks for in vain. I hope these sessions will shake you up, because we all are a bit set in our ways, whether we know it or not. Each 1.5 hour session will focus on one or two divergent themes in this book, and each will have a Q & A discussion at the end. We will record them all, and registrants will not only be able to attend live, but will receive all five recordings.
The Harry Murray Sessions
Monday, December 16 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom
We are thrilled to welcome guest lecturer Harry Murray who will be teaching four classes over the next year, once every three months. The second session will be held on Monday, December 16 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. Harry will be discussing the philosopher and theologian, Nikolai Berdyaev.
Harry Murray is a professor emeritus of sociology at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York. He spent two years at Unity Kitchen in Syracuse in the late 1970s. He is the author of Do Not Neglect Hospitality, which recounts his experiences living and working at three different Catholic Worker houses. He ran the Saturday meal and St. Joseph House in Rochester for over thirty years and was incarcerated in the Salvation Army with Peter DeMott for three months for protesting the Gulf War.
Prof. Frederick Neuhauser: “Can Societies Fall Ill? Diagnosing Social Pathology”
Saturday, February 22 at 12 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom
Prof. Frederick Neuhauser will be our special guest on February 22, 2025, to discuss themes from his latest book, Diagnosing Social Pathology.
From the jacket: Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as ‘ill’, or ‘sick’, and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim – four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a ‘tradition’ – deploy the idea of social pathology in comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation, anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views of society.
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