Manhattan College’s Aquinas Lecture To Explore Politics And Religious Environmentalism

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Roger S. Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will deliver the 2006 Aquinas Lecture at Manhattan College April 5, 2006, on “Religion, Politics and Religious Environmentalism: Finding Hope in a Dark Time.” The program, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the alumni room of the O’Malley Library.

Gottlieb has written and edited 11 books and more than 50 articles on political philosophy, Marxism, feminism, the Holocaust, environmentalism, religious life and disability. For the past 10 years, he has concentrated on the political, ethical and religious dimensions of the environmental crisis and on the broad social and normative connections between religion and politics. His anthology, This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, is known internationally as the first comprehensive collection on the topic.

Gottlieb is editor of six academic book series, book review editor of Social Theory and Practice, has a review column in the national magazine Tikkun, and is on the editorial board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialistic Ecology and Worldviews: Religion, Nature, Culture. He is currently working on the first full-length study of the social and political aspects of religious environmental activism and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, a collection of essays by 25 leading scholars on the religion-ecology connection. Both projects are expected to be released this year by Oxford University Press.

For more information about this lecture, please call Dr. Seamus Carey, associate professor of philosophy, at (718) 862-7124. If you are a member of the press and wish to cover this event, please call Lydia Gray at (718) 862-7993 or e-mail lydia.gray@manhattan.edu.

Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway line 1.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduation programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.