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According to editor and former Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86, “Global Values 101” is a compilation of 16 interviews conducted with guest speakers as part of Religion 1529: “Personal Choice and Global Transformation...
...course, taught by Palmer in Spring 2004, was attended by more than 600 students. During each lecture, students grilled prominent activists and world leaders—including physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, well-known sociologist Juliet Schor, and left-leaning historian Howard Zinn—about their work and their visions for social change...
...Global Values 101” has “a feel of spontaneity, intimacy, open-hearted quality...human quality that I like very much,” Palmer said. “It’s more interesting to read a conversation between Robert Reich and 600 students than to read one of Reich’s books...
Former Religion 1529 students praised Palmer and expected that the book would influence its readers profoundly...
According to Palmer, while each speaker takes the book in a different direction, two important themes that link together the individual interviews are courage and the “simultaneity of wildly contrasting human fates...