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From the Interdisciplinary Conference Collective Memory in St. Louis: Recollection, Forgetting and the Common Good, “Memory and the Religious Imagination” Fontbonne University and the St. Louis History Museum October 21-23, 2010 Shaping an Adequate Human Anthropology What  is  imagination? If we are to answer this question, it will be helpful to provide an adequate human anthropology as a context for our answer. The popular trilogy is  body, mind, and spirit . But is this adequate? Where are the emotions in such a triad? Are they included in  body , or perhaps they a part of what we call  mind.  More, where would we locate the  imagination  in this familiar trilogy? Is the imagination part of what we call  body , or is it better located in what we refer to as  mind . And precisely what do we mean by the human  spirit ? Is it a natural part of the human being or some kind of ghost in a machine? The lack of clarity as to wha...

June 30 – July 10, 2011 June 30 : Three of us, Harvey Schneider, David Oughton, and Carla Mae Streeter, flew American Airlines to JFK where we met Michael Schneider, Harvey’s son, who joined us for the trip. Harvey is Jewish, a lawyer in St. Louis and form president of Interfaith Partnership, and Michael is a reporter in Orlando. David is a professor of World Religions at St. Louis University. Together we searched out Turkish Air, for the next leg of the journey to Istanbul. We will meet the other six members of our party in Istanbul. The service aboard Turkish Air was remarkable. Gifts of slippers, a travel kit with socks and eye shields, and those hot towels before a meal! And such meals: real silverware and more than one can eat. The plane is large, seven across, with very advanced technology: a full entertainment center for each passenger that folds out before the passenger like a tray table! By some chance we were upgraded and assigned to the business section ...