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Recovering
Catholic Childhoods: Can History Teach Us
Anything About the Clerical
Abuse of Children?
Trinity College Department
of Religion’s Getlin Lecture
Addresses Crisis in American Catholicism
Coverage/Interview Opportunity
What:
Dr.
Robert A. Orsi will present “Recovering Catholic Childhoods: Can
History Teach Us Anything About the Clerical Abuse of Children?”
Orsi will explore the current, and, it would seem, most serious crisis
in the history of American Catholicism.
When:
Tuesday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m.
Where:
McCook Auditorium,
on the Trinity College campus
Background:
Orsi’s first publication, The
Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem,
1880-1950 received the Jesuit National Book Award and John
Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association.
He has also published Thank
You, Saint Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless
Causes, Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape, and
Religious Practice in Everyday Life: Essays on the Study of Religion (forthcoming).
Since receiving his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale
University in 1982, Orsi has taught at the Universita degli Studi di
Roma in Italy, Fordham University, Indiana University, and Harvard
University, where he now serves as Charles Warren Professor of
American Religious History, Harvard Divinity School. He has received
numerous academic honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lilly
Endowment consultation award for project on “Children and Religion,
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright
Fellowship. He currently serves as President of the American Academy
of Religion, the major organization of teachers and scholars in the
field of Religious Studies. Orsi is also a member of the Executive
Council, American Society of Church History (2001-present), the
editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,
the editorial board of the Journal of Religion and American Culture.
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