Posted on Feb 24, 2009

Jack Miles, UC-Irvine, Wold Lecture on Religion

The 2009 Wold Lecture on Religion and Conflict will feature Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles in a lectured titled “Religion and International Relations in the Obama Administration: The Aftermath and the Anticipation.”

The event, free and open to the public, will take place Monday, March 2 at 5:30 p.m., with a reception preceding his talk at 5 p.m., at the Nott Memorial.

Miles is the Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies at of the University of California UC Irvine and senior fellow for religious affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy.  His book, “God: A Biography,” won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His following book, published in 2001, is “Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God.”

In 2002 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.  He is general editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions.