Press release from IPFW:
IPFW Celebrates Faculty Authors with New Series
(September 29, 2010) – Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne’s (IPFW) Helmke Library will kick off a new “IPFW Faculty Authors Series: Book Signing and Dialogue” with an event celebrating Anson Shupe’s and Christopher Bradley’s new book entitled Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work: Western Social Psychology and Eastern Zen Buddhism Confront Each Other. The book signing will take place Wednesday, Oct. 6, from noon to 1 p.m. on the first floor of the library.
The event is being dubbed a “book signing and dialogue,” with the expressed intent of providing not just an opportunity for IPFW professors Shupe and Bradley to autograph readers’ purchased copies, but, more importantly, a venue for readers to interact with the authors about their book, the inspiration for it, and the research behind it. Follett’s IPFW Bookstore will have copies of the book for sale at the event. The bookstore will also have limited copies of some of Shupe’s previously published books for sale.
Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work, published in July 2010 by Transaction Publishers, is about how Western social psychology interfaces with an Eastern Zen Buddhist perspective. It is neither a purely Zen Buddhist critique of the former, nor is it merely a social psychological interpretation of Zen. Rather, it is an attempt to create common ground between each through the systematic comparison of shared fundamental concepts and ideas.
Anson Shupe, Ph.D., is professor of sociology and director of the Master of Arts program in Sociological Practice at IPFW. He has authored, coauthored, or edited more than 29 books and dozens of articles dealing with religious movements, clergy misconduct, violence, and inequality.
Christopher Bradley, Ph.D., is associate professor of sociology at IPFW. His primary research interests are in the social psychological areas of emotion, small group interaction, self-concept, and human motivation.
According to Cheryl Truesdell, library dean at IPFW, the new “IPFW Faculty Authors Series” is designed to celebrate the university’s distinguished authors/artists and showcase their published works. Truesdell hopes to have similar events in the future.
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