Marywood University to Offer Religious Experience Lecture Series

SCRANTON, PA (September 10, 2015)—Marywood University will offer a Religious Experience Lecture Series, with the first of the two lectures, “Christian-Sannyasa: Interfaith Spirituality in Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda,” to take place on Monday, September 21, 2015, at 7 p.m., on the third floor of the Learning Commons, on the university’s campus. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Beverly Lanzetta, Ph.D., will be the speaker for the September 21 lecture. Dr. Lanzetta is a retired professor of religious studies and author of the book, Emerging Heart: Global Spirituality and the Sacred.

The second lecture, “The Purpose and Person-Relativity of Religious Argumentation,” will be presented by William J. Wainwright, Ph.D., professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee. This event will take place on Thursday, October 15, 2015, at 7 p.m., on the third floor of the Learning Commons, on the university’s campus.

The Marywood University Interdisciplinary Religious Experience Cluster Group, funded through a grant provided by The Experience Project (http://the-experience-project.org/), sponsors the Religious Experience Lecture Series.

For more information on the Religious Experience Lecture Series at Marywood University, please contact Melinda Krokus, M.A., assistant professor of religious studies, at krokus@marywood.edu; or John DePoe, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy, at jdepoe@marywood.edu.