Join us:
July 22–25, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Leadership Academy 2010 Keynote: Dr. Christian Smith
Dr. Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses primarily on religion in modernity, adolescents, American evangelicalism, and culture. He received his MA and PhD from Harvard University in 1990 and his BA from Gordon College in 1983. Smith was a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 12 years before his move to Notre Dame.
Dr. Smith's larger theoretical agenda has been to move culture, morality, and identity to the center of sociological theorizing generally and the sociology of religion specifically. His early work on social movements emphasized not only structural political opportunities but also personal moral motivations for participation in social movement activism. In his work on American evangelicals, Smith developed a subcultural identity; theory of religious persistence and strength in the modern world, and highlighted the immense cultural complexities within conservative Protestantism. The Secular Revolution emphasized the centrality of culture, agency, and moral vision by religiously hostile actors in the secularization of American public life. Moral, Believing Animals; anthropology underscored the morally-oriented, narratological, and epistemically anti-foundationalist condition of human personhood. Smith's more recent work on the religious and spiritual lives of U.S. adolescents emphasizes the interplay of broad cultural influences, family socialization, and religious motivations in forming teenager's life outcomes. Behind and contributing to these sociological emphases are the philosophical works of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre, a critical realist philosophy of social science, and an interpretive-hermeneutical understanding of sociology.
Source (Christian Smith: University of Notre Dame)
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Leadership Academy 2009 Paper Presentations
MaryKate Morse—Servant Leadership and the Economics of Power
MaryKate Morse—Servant Leadership and the Economics of Power (Audio)
Gene Frost—Learning from the Best: Growing Greatness in the Christian School
Gene Frost—Learning from the Best: Growing Greatness in the Christian School (Audio)
Leadership Academy 2009 Point Counterpoint Presentations
Economic Survival in Tough Times
Point: Jack Higgins
Counterpoint: Ken Friesen
Strong schools must hire well-educated, bright, and articulate Christian teachers.
Point: Tim Shuman
Counterpoint: Stephen Reel
Leadership Academy 2009 Keynote Sessions
Richard Blackaby Session I
Richard Blackaby Session II
Richard Blackaby Session III (unavailable)
Richard Blackaby Session IV
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