MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society will host a presentation by Carol Rausch Albright titled “One God, Complex Self” on February 21 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 263 of the Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest. The presentation is part of this year’s series of monthly discussions on the connections between sensory science and spirituality.

Albright, a visiting professor of religion and science at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, will consider the relationship between neuroscience and spiritual experiences. She suggests that our relationships with God—expressed through prayer, meditation, ritual, worship, emotions, understandings, interactions with others and decision-making—are both experienced and influenced by various parts of the brain, acting separately and in concert.  

Albright has a background in medicine, psychology and theology, and is the author of Growing in the Image of God (2002) and the co-author, with James B. Ashbrook, of Where God Lives in the Human Brain (2001) and The Humanizing Brain: Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet (1997). She serves as an advisor to several organizations concerned with issues of religion and science.

Following the presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion. Make reservations by contacting Dominican University’s Siena Center at (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at www.siena.dom.edu.

The Albertus Magnus Society was established in 2006 by the Siena Center to explore issues related to the intersection of religious belief and scientific insight. The society is supported by a generous grant from the Metanexus Institute.

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, research and seminars.