Author to give lecture on religion, culture

Vincent Pecora is the first professor to receive the Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Utah. He will deliver a lecture, "Religion and Culture: Secularism and Its Discontents" on Tuesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts auditorium on the U. campus.

Pecora has written several books, including "Households of the Soul," and lectured widely — recently in Denmark and at the Shanghai Forum on Globalization and Reconfiguration of Humanistic Studies.

His lecture at the U. is free and open to the public. He will talk about the global debate on the meaning and value of secularism.