This week in the Union there will be a raffle to win an Easter basket worth over $40. The entry fee is only $1 per ticket. The proceeds of the tickets are going to the Darfur Solar Pots project. The sale started on Monday, it happened today, and it will happen again on Friday from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm in the student union. The drawing for the raffle will happen on April 4th so make sure you keep checking your email to know if you have won. This a great cause and it only takes a small contribution to make a big difference.
Also happening on Wednesday, April 4th at 7:30 pm in the Mitchell Dr. Jean Comaroff will speak. She has received her B.A. from the University of Cape Town and her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She has spent the last 30 year
s working in South Africa an expert on the legacy of missionary activity on the African continent. Two of her books, titled Body of Power, and Spirit of Resistance and of Revelation and Revolution, have impacted the work of anthropologists, historians, and scholars of religion, music, dance, and medicine. She is currently a professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
s working in South Africa an expert on the legacy of missionary activity on the African continent. Two of her books, titled Body of Power, and Spirit of Resistance and of Revelation and Revolution, have impacted the work of anthropologists, historians, and scholars of religion, music, dance, and medicine. She is currently a professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
The three subjects she will focus on are the legacy of missions in southern Africa, AIDS, bodily practices, and the cultural politics of healing rituals, and the damaging impact of neo-Pentecostalism throughout Africa today. Her presentation is titled “Commissioning the Past: Evangelism and History-Making in South Africa.” “For anyone interested in the politics of religion and the legacy of missionary activity in Africa, which is by no means finished, she is a mine of information,” said Dr. Neal Keye, an assistant professor of history at The College of St. Scholastica. “Without doubt many missionaries have done a lot of good, but in many cases they have been up to a lot of mischief and have had some disastrous results.”
This event is free and open to the public, so bring your friends from a different school or bring your family. There will also be a reception to follow. This even is the conclusion of the spring events for the Interreligious forum.
Information taken from http://www.css.edu/x19639.xml and the daily students announcements.
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