{"id":1759,"date":"2018-12-03T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2018-12-04T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:57:45","slug":"mckown-delos-banning-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"McKOWN, DELOS BANNING, 1930-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor. Born&#8211; August 30, 1930, Muir, Mich. Parents&#8211; Laurel Ellis and Irene Elizabeth (Banning) McKown. Married&#8211; Anna Louise Watts, September 4, 1958. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; B.A., Alma College, 1951; B.D., Lexington Theological Seminary, 1955; M.A., University of Kentucky, 1958; Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 1958; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1972. Employed as clergyman, Disciples of Christ, 1951; minister, Muir, Michigan, Church of Christ, 1949-1951; Jackson, Ky. Christian Church, 1951-1955; Cynthiana, Ky., 1955-1958. Instructor of religion and philosophy, Berea College, 1958-1959; University of Idaho, 1960-1961; Little Rock University, 1961-1962; Auburn University, 1962-1999 (Head of Philosophy Department, 1972-99). Member ad president of the Auburn, Ala. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Awarded status of professor emeritus at Auburn\u00a0on his retirement in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1974,\u00a0 Who&#8217;s Who in Religion, 1975.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Behold the Antichrist:\u00a0 Bentham on Religion. Amherst, NY:\u00a0 P<\/p>\n<p>The Classical Marxist Critiques of Religion; Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kautsky. The Hague, Netherlands; Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>With Faith and Fury. Buffalo, N.Y.; Prometheus Books, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor. Born&#8211; August 30, 1930, Muir, Mich. Parents&#8211; Laurel Ellis and Irene Elizabeth (Banning) McKown. Married&#8211; Anna Louise Watts, September 4, 1958. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; B.A., Alma College, 1951; B.D., Lexington Theological Seminary, 1955; M.A., University of Kentucky, 1958; Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 1958; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1972. Employed as clergyman, Disciples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}