Christianity and Culture Ninth Annual Conference
Jointly with MSU Arts & Letters / St. John Student Parish,
Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought & Culture

Presents Dr. Peter Steinfels

"RELIGION, POLITICS AND AMERICAN CULTURE:
HOW THE LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED"

Thursday, October 9, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Erickson Kiva, MSU Campus
East Lansing, MI

Peter Steinfels and his wife Margaret O'Brien Steinfels are founding co-directors of the Fordham University Center of Religion and Culture in New York City. In addition, he is a university professor at Fordham and religion columnist for the New York Times. Dr. Steinfels earned his PhD at Columbia University, has taught at Georgetown, Notre Dame, and the University of Dayton, is the recipient of the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, and the holder of seven honorary doctorates. He is also a two time Pulitzer Prize nominee, former editor of Commonweal, an independent bi-weekly journal of political, religious and literary opinion, and a prolific author, having written articles for many distinguished journals, seventeen chapters to various books, and two books of his own, most recently the acclaimed, A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America (2003).