{"id":1981,"date":"2014-02-07T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/07\/koritansky-to-speak-about-civil-religion-in-america\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:41:56","slug":"koritansky-to-speak-about-civil-religion-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/koritansky-to-speak-about-civil-religion-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Koritansky to speak about civil religion in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/John-Koritansky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10008 lazyload\" alt=\"John-Koritansky\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/John-Koritansky.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/257;\" \/><\/a><\/strong>John C. Koritansky, Professor of Political Science at Hiram College (Ohio), will speak Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Koritansky\u2019s talk, \u201cTocqueville on Civil Religion in America,\u201d is free and open to the public. His lecture is co-sponsored by the Tocqueville Program and the Ernest J. Walters, Jr. Lecture Series in Political Thought. All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n<p>Koritansky has written several articles in the areas of American Constitutional law, American political thought and political philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the editor of and major contributor to <i>Public Administration in the United States<\/i>, a collection of readings dealing with both the history and political theory embedded in American public administration. His book, <i>Alexis de Tocqueville and the New Science of Politics<\/i> is in its second edition, published by Carolina Academic Press in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Koritansky received his AB degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. He is chair of Hiram College\u2019s Garfield Institute for Public Leadership, a post he has held since the Institute\u2019s 2007 inaugural year.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Tocqueville lectures include:<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, Feb. 26<\/b> \u2013 Christine Henderson, \u201cProgress and Paradox in Tocqueville\u2019s <i>Memoir on Pauperism<\/i>,\u201d 4:30 p.m., Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, April 2<\/b> \u2013 Wilfred McClay, \u201cThe Tocquevillean Moment \u2026 and Ours,\u201d 4:30 p.m., Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Paige Blankenship in the Department of Political Science, 864-294-3547, or visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram\">www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John C. Koritansky, Professor of Political Science at Hiram College (Ohio), will speak Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center on campus.\u00a0Dr. Koritansky\u2019s talk, \u201cTocqueville on Civil Religion in America,\u201d is free and open to the public. His lecture is co-sponsored by the Tocqueville Program and the Ernest J. Walters, Jr. Lecture Series in Political Thought. All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}