Professor Gaston Espinosa to
Guest on KSPC Radio, Nov. 22

Gast?n Espinosa, associate professor of American religions, politics, and society, will be interviewed live at 6:10 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22 on KSPC Pomona College radio (88.7 FM). Espinosa will discuss the topic of a lecture he recently gave in France on "Obama, Religion, and the 2008 Election."
Espinosa spent nearly two weeks last month in Europe, where he presented at six different universities, including the University of Paris VII ("Religion, Barack Obama & the 2008 Election"), the University of Paris XII ("Selena and the Politics of Cultural Redemption"), CERI/Sciences Po, France's premier political science university and institute ("Religion, Barack Obama, the 2008 Election, and the Cairo Speech"), and Uppsala University.
During his October travels, he also spoke alongside French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Joseph Malia, director of religious affairs, French Foreign Ministry, and at a seminar for members of the Swedish Parliament, as well as a seminar at Linkoping Universitet ("Pentecostalization of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity").
Sunday's radio interview will focus on "Barack Obama, Religion, and the 2008 Election," with additional attention to the reaction of Catholics, Liberal Protestants, and Evangelicals to his Cairo Speech and Health Care Reform proposal.
In addition to his European engagements, Espinosa just returned from the American Academy of Religion in Montreal, Canada, where he presented a paper on Nov. 7 on "Latino Evangelicals, Barack Obama, and the 2008 Election." The discussion was part of a larger panel he organized on "Barack Obama, Evangelicals, and the 2008 Election."