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2013 Workshop Photos
Harris Manchester College, Oxford, July 9-12 (click to enlarge) 


Group photo

Advisory board

Program leader and editor of Historically Speaking Donald Yerxa speaks to the group

William B. Hurlbut (RIHA advisory board member and Stanford University Medical Center.)

Wilfred M. McClay (RIHA advisory board member and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma) The Persistence of Guilt & the Imperilment of Progress American Notions of Selfhood

William R. Shea (RIHA advisory board and Galileo professor of history of science at the University of Padua)

Sarah Barber (anthropology, University of Central Florida) Religion & Political Innovation in Formative Mesoamerica

John Rick, (anthropology, Stanford University) Evidence for Innovation in Pre-State Religious Systems: Research at Ancient Chavín de Huantár, Peru

Arthur Joyce (anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Religion & Political Innovation in Formative Mesoamerica 

Susan Alt (anthropology, Indiana University) Field Research at "Emerald" Site, Cahokia

Hugh McLeod (church history, University of Birmingham) The Innovation Frame: Comparative Secularization in Europe and North America, c. 1730-2010

Christopher Shannon (history, Christendom College) The Salvation of the Nations: Sacred and Secular Narratives of Progress in the Postwar West)

Pamela Edwards (The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History) The Political and Spiritual Legacies of the Atlantic Enlightenment in the American Founding

Peter Harrison (history, University of Queensland) Religion, Naturalism, and Scientific Progress

Tal Howard (history, Gordon College) Protestantism? Reflections in Advance of the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation
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Paul Wason (John Templeton Foundation)

William Bulman (history, Lehigh University) Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Paradox of Innovation

Robert Ingram (history, Ohio University) Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Paradox of Innovation

Dana Robert (Boston University School of Theology) The Birth of the World Church, 1910-1963

Patrick O'Brien (RIHA advisory board member and economic history, London School of Economics)

R. Scott Appleby (history, University of Notre Dame) Science and the Human Person: Catholic, Muslim, and Secular Approaches to Genetic Engineering

J. Benjamin Hurlbut (biology and society, Arizona State University) The Transhumanist Imagination: Innovation, Secularization, and Eschatology

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (history, Syracuse University) Contemporary American Notions of Selfhood

Rebecca Samuel Shah (Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University) The Christian Church and Political Freedom

Timothy Samuel Shah (Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University) The Christian Church and Political Freedom

R. R. Reno (First Things and The Institute on Religion and Public Life) Restoring Wisdom to the Social Sciences

Adam Keiper (The New Atlantis and the Center for the Study of Technology and Society) Religion and Innovation in Science, Medicine, and Technology

Coffee break at Harris Manchester College

J. Benjamin Hurlbut

Breakout session on Selfhood and the Human Person

Philip Bess (architecture, University of Notre Dame) After Burnham: Modernity, Religion, Tradition, Innovation, and the Future of Humanist Urbanism

Breakout session on Contemporary Applications

Breakout session on Innovation and Secularization

Ian Hodder (RIHA advisory board member and anthropology, Stanford University)

Break on the lawn of Harris Manchester College

John Wilson (editor, Books & Culture)

Group session

Harris Manchester College



Dining hall, Harris Manchester College

William B. Hurlbut's plenary address, chapel, Harris Manchester College

David N. Livingstone (RIHA advisory board member and geography and history, Queens University Belfast)


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