tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239326.post113925295897919648..comments2023-11-05T01:26:58.235-06:00Comments on Catholic Fire: DePaul University to Offer Minor in "Queer Studies"?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239326.post-1140028194174903772006-02-15T12:29:00.000-06:002006-02-15T12:29:00.000-06:00Well, DePaul does have some professors teaching th...Well, DePaul does have some professors teaching that I wonder how they got past the interview process. <BR/><BR/>Another one that came to light recently is: prof Jason Winslade <BR/> <BR/>Go to this site and see what he does on his spare time .... and don't forget to see the line-up of "workshops" and their teachers .... Brave New World<BR/><BR/>SOURCE: http://www.starwoodfestival.com/2005/showinfo.php?presenter_id=65<BR/><BR/>" Jason Winslade is a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, where he teaches courses on occultism and popular culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Irish myth, and rites of passage. His PhD is in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He has published scholarly articles on Wicca, the Western esoteric tradition .... as well as a recent article on occult initiation in Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance (Greenwood Press, 2003). His essay on witchcraft and pop culture will soon be included in a scholarly anthology on teen witchcraft. ...."<BR/><BR/>".....To this end, I will introduce a manifesto that I have produced with other scholars calling for a return to the mysterious and the occult specifically within the fields of theatre and performance and generally within higher learning. We will determine the differences between an occultism that keeps knowledge hidden from all but an elite group and an occultism that reveals mysteries to all, based on my experiences teaching magick and occultism to college freshman. ..."<BR/><BR/>At my daughter's all girl's Catholic school, her religious teacher informed the class that the Blessed Mother had children, pagans do have gods, and the UU church has great ice cream socials ....<BR/><BR/>sigh<BR/><BR/>and at my son's catholic school a teacher recommended the Left Behind series as a good read ....<BR/><BR/>double sigh<BR/><BR/>+JMJ+Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239326.post-1139331514386950552006-02-07T10:58:00.000-06:002006-02-07T10:58:00.000-06:00Why is it that Christian universities lose the foc...Why is it that Christian universities lose the focus on why they were founded? I really hope the Catholic Church gets around to ridding its universities of heretical teachers.Amigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15011729207157340729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239326.post-1139318509878107352006-02-07T07:21:00.000-06:002006-02-07T07:21:00.000-06:00Next they will be offering minors for queer studie...<I>Next they will be offering minors for queer studies ala NAMBLA.</I><BR/><BR/>This may sound silly, but on what basis would they reject such a proposal? Sin? Law? Church teaching? Popular disapproval? Bad PR? <BR/><BR/>Can anyone point to a program they've rejected on any such grounds previously?<BR/><BR/>Does DePaul even teach good and evil anymore?Sir Galen of Bristolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249011691189216258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239326.post-1139280724236745102006-02-06T20:52:00.000-06:002006-02-06T20:52:00.000-06:00nice blog. loves reading it. thanks and God blessnice blog. loves reading it. thanks and God blessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239326.post-1139266081040778532006-02-06T16:48:00.000-06:002006-02-06T16:48:00.000-06:00Next they will be offering minors for queer studie...Next they will be offering minors for queer studies ala NAMBLA.Jeff Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03892529674664589034noreply@blogger.com