Culture, Nature and God in the Social Sciences | Prof. Margarita Mooney

The Thomistic Institute

This talk was offered on February 16th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was one of the talks offered at the "Faith, Science and Nature Conference" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: https://thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Margarita Mooney is an Associate Professor of Congregational Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and also the founder of the Scala Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to reinvigorating classical liberal arts education and preserving the ideas and practices necessary to maintain a free society. Dr. Mooney holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, and then earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, publishing her dissertation as the book, "Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora" in 2009. Before returning to Princeton in 2016, Dr. Mooney was on the faculty of the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2007-2013, and then served on the faculty for the Sociology Dept. at Yale University from 2013-2016. Her research has been funded by two grants from the John Templeton Foundation totaling more than $3 million. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Living a Broken Life, Beautifully that explores the religious lives of young adults who have experienced traumatic life events.