Events

Religion Department

Please consult the Bucknell University News & Events Web page for up-to-date listings of Religion Department events, or contact the Department directly.

Programs Sponsored by the Religion Department: 

The Charles M. and Elizabeth S. Bond Memorial Lecture 

The Charles M. and Elizabeth S. Bond Memorial Lecture was established in 1967 in tribute to Charles M. Bond, whose contributions to the life of Bucknell University through teaching, scholarship, and community service spanned 35 years. Professor Bond began teaching in the Department of Religion at Bucknell University in 1925, and served as its chairperson for many years until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1960. 

Originally established as the Charles Martin Bond Memorial Lecture, upon the death of his wife Elizabeth Stults Bond the name of the lectureship was changed at the request of the Bond family to the Charles M. and Elizabeth S. Bond Memorial Lectureship

The lectureship is to be filled by "a person who has made significant contributions in the general area of religious interpretation, thought, and action."

Past Bond Lectureship holders:

1968 John C. Bennett, "Vietnam and the Christian Conscience"

1969 Robert N. Bellah, "The Social Scientific Rediscovery of Religious Consciousness"

1971 Kathleen Kenyon, "Digging Up the Holy City"

1973 J. Glenn Gray, "A Phenomenology of Violence"

1974 Rosemary Radford Ruether, "Religious Perspectives on Women’s Liberation"

1975 Alan Geyer, "Liberal Education and Human Survival"

1978 Penelope Washborun, "Attaining Femal Wholeness Today"

1980 John B. Cobb, Jr., "Toward a Theology of Ecology"

1982 Robert F. Drinan, "Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control: A Roman Catholic Perspective"

1986 Cornel West, "America: Threat or Promise for the Future?"

1988 James H. Cone, "The Religious Roots of Martin Luther King’s Dream"

1989 Thomas Berry, "The Earth as Sacred Community"

1990 Frances Moore Lappé, "Liberating Values: Search for America’s Purpose"

1992 Charles Long, "New Space, New Time: Disjunctions and Context for a New World Religion"

1995 Judith E. Plaskow, "Placing Jewish Women in History"

1999 Rev. Keido Fukushima, Chief Abbot, Tofukuji Monastery (Kyoto, Japan), "The Sixth Patriarch Eno’s Zen"

2007:  David Chidester "American Religion: Violence and Redemption."