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Henry Ford built cars, but author and scholar Kati Curts will highlight in an upcoming Kalamazoo College event how religion<\/a> often drove him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curts, an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of the South, will deliver the 2025 Armstrong Lecture<\/a>, titled How Ford Transformed Religion in America<\/em>, at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 4, in the Olmsted Room in Mandelle Hall. This event, presented by the Department of Religion, is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her book Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America<\/em>, Curts explores Ford\u2019s life as a devout Episcopalian, reader of New Thought philosophies, and fervent believer in efficiency as a moral duty with his business functioning as a kind of ministry. Her public talk will provide a religious history of Ford and the Ford Motor Company, repositioning them within critical studies of religion and examining how Ford helped transform American religious life in the 20th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Armstrong Lecture series at K is made possible by the Homer J. Armstrong Endowment in Religion, established in 1969 through generous donations honoring Armstrong, an eminent pastor and longtime trustee of the College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, contact Academic Office Coordinator Sarah Bryans in the Department of Religion at Sarah.Bryans@kzoo.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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