McNamara Lectures
2010-2011 Academic Year
The 2011 McNamara Lecture in the Sociology of Religion
"Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights and Freedom in Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Campaigns" - Elizabeth Bernstein (Barnard College)
2009-2010 Academic Year
The 2010 McNamara Lecture in the Sociology of Religion
“Religion in the Media Age” - Stewart M. Hoover (U. Colorado – Boulder)
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Islam, Engagement, and the Public Sphere Lecture Series
“The Gender Paradox: Javanese Women and the Appeal of Conservative-Islam.” - Nancy J Smith-Hefner (Boston University)
“The Politics of Deliberation: Quat Chews as Public Spheres in Yemen.” - Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago)
"Protesting Jordan: Law, Space and Political Dissent.” - Jillian Schwedler (U of Mass-Amherst)
"Heavy Metal Islam: Popular Music and Muslim Public Spheres.” - Mark LeVine (UC Irvine)
2007-2008 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series
Fred Kniss (Loyola University Chicago) and Paul Numrich (MTSO)
2006-2007 Academic Year.
"Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe and Muslim Countries" - Stephen Bronner (Rutgers University)
McNamara Lecture Series Panel
"What Congregations Do" - Mark Chaves (University of Arizona), Nancy Ammerman (Boston University), and Ram Cnaan (University of Pennsylvania)
2005-2006 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series Panel
"Religion, Race and the City." Michael Emerson (Rice University), Omar McRoberts (University of Chicago), Richard Wood (University of New Mexico)
2004-2005 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series
"Muslim Visibilities: Examples from the Cities of Chicago and Copenhagen” – Garbi Schmidt (Danish National Institute of Social Research)
2003-2004 Academic Year
Sociology of Religion Symposium
– “The Ethnographic Study of Religion: An Interdisciplinary Conversation”
"The Range of Religious Practice and the Strictures of Ethnographic Research Methods” – Karen McCarthy Brown (Drew University)
"Truth, Subjectivity, and Ethnography” – Lynn Davidman (Brown University)
"Religious Ethnography or ‘Orientalism’: Insider/Outsider Dynamics in Field Research on Muslims in North America” – Frederick M. Denny (University of Colorado – Boulder)
2002-2003 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series
"Islamic Responses and Academic Responsibilities in the Wake of 9/11” – Cynthia Mahmood (University of Notre Dame)
2001-2002 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series
"“Religion and Immigration in a Global Age” – Jose Cassanova (The New School)
"The Role of Religion for New Immigrants in Los Angeles” – Donald Miller (USC)
"Religion Across Borders: Religious Transnational Networks in Immigrant Communities” – Helen Rose Ebaugh (University of Huston)
2000-2001 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series
“Lived Religion and the Material Body” – Meredith McGuire (Trinity University)
“Pray your Weight Away: The Culture of American Christian Diet and Fitness” – R. Marie Griffith (Princeton University)
"Hints Followed by Guesses: Interpreting the Religious in Daily Conversations” – Courtney Bender (Columbia University)
1999-2000 Academic Year
McNamara Lecture Series Panel
“What We Know (And What We Wish We Knew) about Contemporary American Catholics – Dean Hoge (Catholic University of America), William D’Antonio (Catholic University of America), James Davidson (Purdue University), Katherine Meyer (Ohio State University), nad Ruth Wallace (George Washington University.
1998-1999 Academic Year
McNamara Center For the Social Study of Religion Inaugural Symposium
Knowing our Limits: The Conversation Between Social Science and Religion” – R. Stephen Warner
1997-1998 Academic Year
Sociology of Religion Lecture Series
Sociology as Prophecy: The Future of the Catholic Church from an Hispanic Perspective” – Ana Maria Diaz-Stephens (Union Theological Seminary)
Catholics and the Moral Veto: 20th Century Birth Control Policies in the US” – Gene Burns (Michigan State University)
1993-1994 Academic Year
Sociology of Religion Lecture Series
"Restructuring Parish Leadership: Catholic Women Pastors." Ruth Wallace (George Washington University).
"Celibacy, Sacrament, and Control in the Catholic Church: Causes and Consequences of the Priest Shortage." Richard Schoenherr (University of Wisconsin).
Patrick McNamara (University of New Mexico)
1992-1993 Academic Year
Sociology of Religion Lecture Series
"Congregations and Communities: The Dynamics of Change." Nancy Ammerman (Emory University).
"Expanding Female Opportunities and Shrinking Catholic Convents: A Cross-National Perspective." Helen Rose Ebaugh (University of Huston)
"Gods, Guns, and Gandhi: A New Paradigm for Conflict." Lester R. Kurtz (University of Texas, Austin).
