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39th annual Robison Lecture features former president of Mormon History Association
Monday, February 28, 2011

CANTON, Mo. -- Culver-Stockton College’s annual Robison Lecture in Religion is scheduled for Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The lecture will feature Dr. Jan Shipps, professor emerita of history and religious studies from Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis. Dr. Shipps, the best-known non-Mormon scholar of Mormonism, will deliver a lecture entitled “Sojourner in the Promised Land: A Methodist’s Astonishing Half-Century among the Mormons.” The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in Merillat Chapel located inside the Robert W. Brown Performing Arts Center on the C-SC campus.

Dr. Shipps served as the first non-Mormon and first woman president of the Mormon History Association, program chair for the annual meeting of the Western History Association, president of the John Whitmer Historical Association and president of the American Society of Church History. Shipps also served as an American Studies Association delegate to the Japanese American Studies Association in 2003. Dr. Shipps is the founding co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation and she served as director of the IUPUI Center for American Studies.

The Robison Lectureship in Religion was inaugurated in 1972 through an endowment gift by Dr. Henry Robison’s daughter, Dr. Georgia Robison Beale. The lectureship provides for an annual lecture in some area of religious scholarship and for the printing and distribution of the lecture. The lectures have been distributed to friends and surviving relatives of Dr. Robison, to deans and professors of religion in Disciples Institutions of higher education and to Disciples ministers in the tri-states.

Henry Barton Robison was a native of Georgia and educated at Transylvania College, College of the Bible (LTS) and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in 1907 with a major in New Testament and a minor in Old Testament). After brief pastorates in Texas and Alabama, he served as professor of religion at Culver-Stockton College from 1910 to 1944.

This event is part of the Culver-Stockton College Academic and Cultural Affairs program and is free and open to the public.