Religion and Conflict
by Arizona State University Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
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Religion wields extraordinary influence in public affairs. Although a rich reservoir of values, principles, and ideals, it is also a powerful source of conflict and violence as diverse traditions—religious and secular—collide. Globalizing trends that are making the world smaller are also unleashing dynamics that are creating some of the most complex and challenging problems of our age. The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University promotes interdisciplinary research and education on the dynamics of religion and conflict with the aim of advancing knowledge, seeking solutions and informing policy.
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CleanWaiting, Tolerating, and Cooperating: Modern Religious Belief as a Restraint Device | With the advent of large, sedentary, agrarian societies, humans began to encounter novel problems related to cooperation and the restraint of impulses. One possibility we have been exploring for the historical correlation between the advent of these societies and their religious innovations is that the beliefs that characterize modern religiousness (namely, belief in moralizing gods and in the afterlife) were (and perhaps still are) put to use in these societies to encourage the new forms of cooperation and restraint that led to cultural success. In this talk I will discuss our research on the cross-cultural role of belief in high Gods in the inculcation of specific virtues related to self-control and prosociality during child development, and the associations of religious participation (and specific forms of religious cognition) with impulsive economic decision-making and specific forms of sexually motivated "showing off" among young men. I will also present work suggesting that people use visible markers of devout religious commitment as cues that the bearer of those markers can be trusted in economic transactions. Michael McCullough is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami, where he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory and coordinates the Evolution and Behavior emphasis within the Psychology Department’s PhD Program. He holds a secondary appointment in UM’s Department of Religious Studies. Professor McCullough’s research—all of which is heavily influenced by evolutionary approaches to understanding human cognition and behavior—focuses on (a) psychological mechanisms related to social exchanges of costs and benefits (for example, forgiveness, revenge, and gratitude); (b) religion; (c) self-control; and (d) adolescent risk behavior. Professor McCullough’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanReligion, Values and the Search for Peace | Sari Nusseibeh is Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and President of al-Quds University, East Jerusalem (1995-present). Born in Damascus in 1949, he was brought up in Jerusalem and later educated both in the UK (Oxford, PPE) and Harvard (Islamic Philosophy), earning his PhD in 1978. He taught at Birzeit University in the West Bank from 1978 until 1991, when he was placed under administrative detention in an Israeli jail for three months. Following his release, he joined his colleagues in the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel, heading the Technical and Advisory committees. At the same time, he co-founded the Fatah Higher Committee in the Occupied Territories, serving as it Deputy Chairman. After the death of his colleague, Faisal Husseini, Nusseibeh briefly served as PLO point man in Jerusalem. In 2003 Sari Nusseibeh co-founded IPSO (the Israel/Palestine Scientific Organization), and continues to serve at its co-chairman to this day. Nusseibeh also co-founded and chaired several grassroots committees, unions, and non-governmental charity organizations, including, in 2002, “the Peoples’ Voice”, a “bi-national” public campaign for a two-state solution. Over the years, Nusseibeh received several recognitions and awards, including, most recently -(2009)- an Honorary Doctorate from Leuven University in Belgium. He was twice selected (2005,2007) by Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazines as one of the 100 leading world public figures. In 1994-5 he was elected Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C. In 2001 he was Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. In 2004-5 he was the Rita Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. In 2007 he became Fellow at the Baker Institute for Foreign Policy at Rice University. Nusseibeh’s presentations at international fora include the much-acclaimed Tanner Lectureship (Harvard University, 2008), and the Multatuli Lecture (Leuven, 2009). Nusseibeh has written and lectured widely, his ever-increasing focus being the subject of war and peace in his region of the world. One of his most recent books, Once Upon A Country, with co-author Anthony David, has received numerous positive reviews, and has been translated into many languages, while his earlier book on a two-state solution (with Mark Heller, 1991) has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew and French. He recently finished a new book, What’s a Palestinian State Worth?, which is now available on paperback. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPeace in Postnormal Times | Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, is Visiting Professor, the School of Arts, The City University, London. He has been described as a ‘critical polymath’ and works across a number of disciplines ranging from Islamic studies and futures studies to science policy, literary criticism, information science to cultural relations, art criticism and critical theory. He was born in Pakistan in 1951 and grew up in Hackney, East London. Ziauddin Sardar has worked as science journalist for Nature and New Scientist and as a television reporter for London Weekend Television. He was a columnist on the New Statesman for a number of years and has served as a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and as a member of the Interim National Security Forum. Ziauddin Sardar has published over 45 books. The Future of Muslim Civilisation (1979) and Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come (1985) are regarded as classic studies on the future of Islam. He pioneered the discussion on science in Muslim societies, with a series of articles in Nature and New Scientist and a number of books, including Science, Technology and Development in the Muslim World (1977), The Touch of Midas: Science, Values and the Environment in Islam and the West (1982), which is seen as a seminal work, The Revenge of Athena: Science, Exploitation and the Third World (1988) andExplorations in Islamic Science (1989). Postmodernism and the Other (1998) has acquired a cultish following and Why Do People Hate America? (2002) became an international bestseller. Ziauddin Sardar’s two volumes of biography and travel, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim (2004) and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain (2008) have received wide acclaim. He has also authored a number of study guides in the Introducing series, including the international bestsellers Introducing Islam and Introducing Chaos. Two collections of his writings are available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (2003) and How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (2006). Ziauddin Sardar has written and presented numerous television programmes – most recently ‘Battle for Islam’, a 90-minute documentary for BBC2 and ‘Dispatches’ on Pakistan for Channel 4. His earlier programmes include ‘Encounters with Islam’ (1985), a series of four shows for BBC and ‘Islamic Conversations’ (1994), a series of six programmes for Channel 4. He was a regular Friday Panel Member on ‘World News Tonight’ on Sky News (2005-2007). Ziauddin Sardar is Chair of the Muslim Institute, a learned, fellowship society that promotes knowledge and thought from a critical Muslim perspective. He is the also the Chair of the Black Umbrella Trust, the publishers of Third Text, a journal that provides ‘critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture’, which he co-edited from 1996 to 2006. Ziauddin Sardar is the editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning and futures studies, and a regular contributor to the New Statesman, the Guardianand book pages of the Independent. He is widely known for his radio and television appearances. With support from the Hardt-Nickachos Peace Studies Endowment, the religious studies faculty of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and the Institute of Humanities Research research cluster on “Imaginaires of Islamic Modernity.” | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPanel 1 - Religion and Women's Rights on the Ground | Is secularism the only way for women to achieve equality? Is religion inherently antithetical to women's advancement? Is the concept of human rights so associate with "the West" that it can never be a viable means for achieving women's rights in non-Western countries? The Luce Conference on Religion and International Affairs: Through the Prism of Rights and Gender will explore these and other questions in a public forum with ASU faculty and visiting scholars and practitioners from the US and abroad. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession 1 - Sexuality, Secularism, and Religious Liberty: A Contested Genealogy | Is secularism the only way for women to achieve equality? Is religion inherently antithetical to women's advancement? Is the concept of human rights so associate with "the West" that it can never be a viable means for achieving women's rights in non-Western countries? The Luce Conference on Religion and International Affairs: Through the Prism of Rights and Gender will explore these and other questions in a public forum with ASU faculty and visiting scholars and practitioners from the US and abroad. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPanel II - Thinking Differently?: Toward New Partnerships, Paradigms, and Policies | Is secularism the only way for women to achieve equality? Is religion inherently antithetical to women's advancement? Is the concept of human rights so associate with "the West" that it can never be a viable means for achieving women's rights in non-Western countries? The Luce Conference on Religion and International Affairs: Through the Prism of Rights and Gender will explore these and other questions in a public forum with ASU faculty and visiting scholars and practitioners from the US and abroad. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession II - TBA | Is secularism the only way for women to achieve equality? Is religion inherently antithetical to women's advancement? Is the concept of human rights so associate with "the West" that it can never be a viable means for achieving women's rights in non-Western countries? The Luce Conference on Religion and International Affairs: Through the Prism of Rights and Gender will explore these and other questions in a public forum with ASU faculty and visiting scholars and practitioners from the US and abroad. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHuman Rights and Women | Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, which is a Chair that includes appointments to the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Additionally, she holds Associate appointments in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and Co-Chairs the Human Rights Program. She is also the founder and Coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism and Co-director of the Center for Laws, Philosophy, and Human Values. In addition to her current position at the University of Chicago, Nussbaum has held teaching positions at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. Her work has encompassed a broad range of issues, with a particular focus on ancient philosophy, justice studies, gender theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Over the course of her career, Nussbaum has received numerous awards, including: the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction, the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays, the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, the Association of American University Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law, and the American Political Science Association's Elaine and David Spitz Award for the best book in liberal/democratic theory. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeyond the Arab Spring:Back to Islamism? | Asef Bayat - The Arab Spring surprised and impressed many experts and lay observers for their largely civil, peaceful and immensely popular revolutions. But the intense debate was on the nature of these revolutions. Many characterized them as youth, liberal and democratic revolutions. Yet, the impressive showing of religious parties in the general elections in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt has reinforced the view of those who feared yet another wave of Islamist fundamentalism in the Arab world. Do these revolutions herald the entrenchment of Islamist politics in the Middle East? This talk by Asef Bayat, a leading expert on Islamic social movements, aims to address this question. Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Bayat taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo for 16 years, before joining the Leiden University to serve (between 2003-2010) as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), and the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York, the University of Oxford, and Brown University; and served in the editorial boards of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Development and Change, ISIM Review, Middle East Report, Middle East Critique, Eutopia, Cairo Papers in Social Science. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeyond Belief | Elaine Pagels - Growing up in a family of scientists, Elaine Pagels was taught that scientific discovery had made religion obsolete and irrelevant. Despite this early training — or perhaps because of it — Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, is now one of the country’s leading scholars of religion. An intensely inquisitive and thorough historian, Pagels’ impeccable scholarship has won her international respect. As a young researcher at Barnard College, she changed forever the historical landscape of the Christian religion by exploding the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement. Her findings were published in the bestselling book, The Gnostic Gospels (1979, Random House), an analysis of 52 early Christian manuscripts that were unearthed in Egypt in 1945. Known collectively as the Nag Hammadi Library, the manuscripts demonstrate that the early Christian movement was far more diverse than previously thought. They also indicate how women, prominent in certain Christian groups, were subsequently excluded from governing positions in its emerging hierarchy. As the early church moved toward becoming an orthodox body with a canon, rites and clergy, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts were suppressed and deemed herectical. Expanding on questions raised in The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels wrote Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988, Random House), a book that explores the Genesis creation stones and their role in the development of sexual attitudes in the Christian West — as well as the conviction, fundamental to American political life, that “all men are created equal.” Pagels wrote The Origin of Satan (1995, Random House) after two tragic events in her life, the 1987 death of her six-year-old son Mark to a respiratory disease and the 1988 death of her husband of 20 years, physicist Heinz Pagels, in a rock climbing accident. Pagels says that following these events, like many people who grieve, she had a sense of living with invisible presences. The book is a culmination of her reflections on the many ways that various religions have given imaginative form to what is invisible. She sketches the development of Jewish and Christian perceptions of evil. She also points out a clear connection between the primarily western view of the world as a battleground between supernatural forces of good and evil, and the tendency of certain groups — both Christian and Muslim — to demonize others. This tendency, observes Pagels, resulted in “some very human tragedies.” She adds, “[Demonization ] is a cultural habit we can no longer afford.” In her New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels focuses on religious claims to possessing the ultimate “truth.” She contends that, as Christianity became increasingly institutionalized, it became more politicized and less pluralistic. Says Pagels, “I’m advocating, on some level, the inclusion of [religious texts] that were considered blasphemous. I suggest that there are ways of embracing a far wider spectrum of religious diversity within Christianity and quite beyond Christianity.” Her latest book, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (March 2007), is also a New York Times bestseller. Co-authored with fellow scholar Karen King, the book is the first to illustrate how the newly discovered Gospel of Judas provides a window onto understanding how Jesus’ followers understood his death, why Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it. She has also been profiled in such national publications as TIME, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Mirabella, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. In February 1997, Pagels was named one of the 25 Most Influential Working Mothers by Working Mother magazine. In 2003 she was a featured commentator on the ABC special program, “Jesus. Mary and Da Vinci.” | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTaking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths | Katherine Marshall has worked for over three decades on international development, with a focus on issues facing the world’s poorest countries. She is a senior fellow at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Service. She has served as senior advisor for the World Bank on issues of faith and development. Her long career with the World Bank (1971-2006) involved a wide range of leadership assignments, many focused on Africa. From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in development work,as counselor to the World Bank’s President. She served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank’s Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa. She led the Bank's work on social policy and governance during the East Asia crisis years. She also worked extensively on Eastern Africa and Latin America. As a long time manager she was involved in many task forces and issues, among them exercises addressing leadership issues, conflict resolution, the role of women, and issues for values and ethics. Ms. Marshall has been closely engaged in the creation and development of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) and is its Executive Director. She serves on the Boards of several NGOs and advisory groups, including AVINA Americas, the Niwano Peace Prize International Selection Committee, and the Opus Prize Foundation. She is a board member of IDEA (International Development Ethics Association) and the International Anti-Corruption Advisory Conference (IACC) advisory council. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She served as a core group member of the Council of 100, an initiative of the World Economic Forum to advance understanding between the Islamic World and the West, and was a Trustee of Princeton University (2003-9). She was co-moderator of the Fes Forum which is part of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music since its inception. She speaks and publishes widely on issues for international development. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeyond Fundamentalism | Reza Aslan is a scholar, public intellectual, activist and entrepreneur who is known for addressing the complex challenges of Islam, democracy and extremism with authority, wit and optimism. Born in Iran, Aslan grew up well aware of the controversial role of religion in politics, a topic he has explored in two internationally acclaimed books and several edited volumes, including No god but God (2005), Beyond Fundamentalism (2009), and, most recently, Muslims and Jews in America (2011). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Ploughshares Fund, Aslan is as comfortable answering questions on CNN and ABC as he is on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He sees himself as part of a new generation of Muslims who are actively solidifying relations with the West by creating democratic change across the Muslim world. With degrees in religion and creative writing from Harvard University, University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Iowa, Aslan is an associate professor at University of California-Riverside and the founder of Aslan Media, which runs BoomGen Studios, a company that develops entertainment from, about, and for the Middle East. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | CleanVideoThe Difference a Decade makes: Religion, Politics and Public Life | Marking the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this program will feature a panel of ASU faculty discussing the dynamics of religion, politics and public life, nationally and globally. The program will provide an opportunity for reflection and discussion on an event whose imprint has dramatically shaped the first decade of the 21st century. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanParadise Beneath Her Feet:: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East | In her most recent book, Paradise Beneath Her Feet (2010), Isobel Coleman tells the stories of the women and men who, in the face of rising fundamentalism, are working from within Islam to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women and a growing movement of Islamic feminism. The author of three books on US foreign policy and the Middle East, Coleman argues that change is happening, and more often than not, it is being led by women. Isobel Coleman is Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where she focuses on the Middle East and South Asia. She is the director of CFR’s Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Initiative. She is also the director of the Council’s Women and Foreign Policy Program. Her areas of expertise include democratization, civil society and economic development, regional gender issues, educational reform, and microfinance. She is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010), Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008) and Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security(Hoover Press, 2006). Her writings have also appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, and online venues such as the Huffington Post. She is a frequent speaker at academic, business, and policy conferences. In 2010, she served as a track leader for the Clinton Global Initiative. Prior to joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Coleman was CEO of a healthcare services company and a partner with McKinsey & Co. in New York. A Marshall Scholar, she holds a DPhil and MPhil in international relations from Oxford University and a BA in public policy and East Asian studies from Princeton University. She serves on several non-profit boards, including Plan USA and Student Sponsor Partners. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGender, Religion, and Human Rights: Afghanistan's Changes and Challenges | Marzia Basel is founder and Director of the Afghanistan Progressive Law Organization and the Afghan Women’s Judges Association. She has extensive training and experience in international relations, women in development, and law. She holds a bachelor’s in law and political science from Kabul University and a master’s in international law and comparative studies from George Washington University. She was employed as a judge in both civil and criminal courts in Kabul and served in the Supreme Court Legal Aid Department and the Kabul Public Security Court. During the period of Taliban rule (1996-2001), Basel ran a private, home-based school for women where she designed programming and taught English. After the fall of the Taliban, she was active in state reconstruction, serving on the Kabul Public Security Court, acting as a representative for the establishment of the Independent Afghan Judicial Commission, and acting as an officer for the Emergency Loya Jirga Commission. She was integral to women’s mobilization in reconstruction, working for the Director of UNIFEM Afghanistan as a Gender Justice Officer and serving on the Afghan Constitution Commission in a unit supporting women in the election process. She also served for UNICEF Afghansitan as Juvenile Justice Project Officer. Since 2006, she has been working as National Advisor to the German government's Assistant for Afghanistan GTZ, now the GIZ Rule of Law Project. After the suspension of the Afghan Women Judges Association by the Afghan Supreme Court she founded the Afghanistan Progressive Law Organization and has served as its director since 2009. She is also a volunteer member of the Afghan Independent Bar Association Women's Committee, and a volunteer member of the advisory committee for the Afghan Women's Ministry. | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam | Eliza Griswold, author, poet, investigative reporter, and Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, explores the intersection of conflict, human rights, and religion through a beautiful yet sobering mixture of journalistic realism and artistic prose, capturing what it is to be completely, and only, human. An award winner for both her poetry and non-fiction her first non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam was published earlier this year. In this work she relates her experiences of last seven years in Africa and Asia between the equator and the line of latitude seven hundred miles to the north, the tenth parallel. She concludes that the most important forces shaping the future of the world’s religions are those contests unfolding inside of Christianity and Islam, not between them. She shows us that religion links us to each other whether we like it or not. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFrom Tea Parties to Textbooks: Religion, Politics and the Struggle for American Identity | In his book Culture Wars (1992) Hunter "coined" the term that titled the book and it has been a staple within popular circulation ever since. He argued that America was in the midst of a "culture war" over "our most fundamental and cherished assumptions about how to order our lives." In 1998 Wolfe challenged this idea of a culture war in One Nation After All. He proposed the alternate thesis, that a majority of Americans were seeking a middle way, a blend of the traditional and the modern. With the nation seemingly polarized as ever these two distinguished scholars will discuss what this means for religion, society, and identity in America. James Davison Hunter is Labrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His various works are centered around the problem of meaning and moral order in a time of political and cultural change in American life. His most recent book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. He is the author and editor of more than 20 books, most recently, The Future of Liberalism and his work has appeared in Commonwealth, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHow do we teach peace? | Professor Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and a Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Her research and teaching interests invoke a dynamic transnational and interdisciplinary dialogue situated at the intersection of history, culture and religion. With a specific focus on contestations and accommodations in South Asia between local, national and religious identities, she examines the Muslim experience in India, Pakistan, and Bangaldesh, and the discourse of nonviolence alongside the practice of violence against women and vulnerable groups. In her first two books, In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of the Swargadeos at the Crossroads of Assam (1997) and Fragmented Memories: Struggling to Become Tai-Ahom in India (2004), Prof. Saikia examines the connections between Assam and India as well as Assam’s outheast Asian neighbors, particularly Thailand, through a study of buranjis (pre-modern local chronicles of the Ahom kingdom) and colonial and post-colonial records, including scholarly and militant networks. In these two books, she shows how revived memories of the thirteenth century serve as a site in present-day Assam for crafting a new Tai-Ahom cultural and political identity that questions Indian national identity and, in turn, generates linkages with pan-Tai identity movements. | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIndia After Gandhi: Non-violence and Violence in the World's Largest Democracy | Ramachandra Guha holds a PhD in Sociology from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has taught at Oslo University, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer, based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a history of post-Independence India, a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants. Guha's books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the UK Cricket Society's Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History. | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWilderness and Democracy | Ramachandra Guha holds a PhD in Sociology from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has taught at Oslo University, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer, based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a history of post-Independence India, a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants. Guha's books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the UK Cricket Society's Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History. | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRamachandra Guha Interview | Ramachandra Guha holds a PhD in Sociology from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has taught at Oslo University, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer, based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a history of post-Independence India, a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants. Guha's books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the UK Cricket Society's Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History. | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHuman Sacrifice: Religion and Statecraft | William Hart is Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Politics in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. His areas of academic interest include religion and imperialism, the ethical-political dimensions of religion, African-American religious history, culture and thought, and critical theory of religion. Professor Hart's most recent book, Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis(2008), explores the spiritual dimensions of Malcolm X’s life: his journey from Christianity to Islam, social parasite to “race man,” and libertine to ascetic. It also explores affinities between Malcolm’s spiritual journey and the journeys of Julius Lester and Jan Willis. Earlier publications include the book Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (2000), a study of the distinction between religion and secularism on which Said's cultural criticism is grounded. His current projects include Human Sacrifice: Dying and Killing for God and State, an exploration of human sacrifice in religion and statecraft. | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGoverning Religion: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Postsecular Age | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd writes and teaches about political culture, political theory, international relations, and foreign policy. She specializes in relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Her first book, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Arguing that secularist divisions between religion and politics are not fixed, as commonly assumed, but socially and historically constructed, the book examines the philosophical and historical legacies of two secularist traditions that shape European and American approaches to global politics. It then examines the impact of these varieties of secularism upon relations between the United States and Iran, and the European Union and Turkey. Hurd is currently developing a new book-length project that will examine the role of, and interactions between, political theology, law, and religion in international politics. She is also working on contributions for several edited volumes on secularism, religion, and international affairs. Hurd is a member of the Social Science Research Council Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs and a co-convenor of the Middle East and North African Studies Working Group at Northwestern University. In 2004-2005 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and in spring 2009 will be visiting faculty at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession III - Gendering the Divide conference | This is the fourth and final conference in a series developed as part of the multiyear project titled “Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy: An International Crossdisciplinary Project.” Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project is designed to deepen understanding of the varieties and politics of secularism and the public role of religion, focusing on France, India, Turkey, and the U.S. This conference will focus on the role of gender in configurations of, and conflicts between, religion and secularism. We seek to promote reflection from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the gendered dimensions of the religion-secular distinction, and the role of this formation in feminist, and other scholarly and public discourses, on gender/sexuality. As an international, cross-disciplinary conference, the papers are grounded in a broad range of approaches, including case studies as well as historical, theoretical, and normative treatments. Some of the central questions being explored include how and why do issues of gender/sexuality function as sites of conflict over the proper alignment of religion and the secular? How has the religion-secular distinction worked, implicitly and explicitly, to shape the study of gender/sexuality and the articulation of emancipatory goals? What are the implications for theory and practice? How has the figure of the oppressed woman in religious traditions been invoked in national and global politics? What forms of secular power and violence have been occluded through such tropes? What new insights, models, and metaphors are needed to rethink the intersections of religion, secularism, and gender in an increasingly pluralistic and interactive global environment? | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGendering the Secular and Religious in turn-of-the-20th century Egypt: ‘Woman,’ Family, and Nation. | Margot Badran is a senior fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Her work has focused on women, gender, and feminisms in Islam and Muslim societies for more than three decades and has combined teaching and scholarship, public intellectual work, consulting, and activism. For a succinct reflection upon her work and ongoing concerns see her following books: Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences (Oneworld, Oxford, February 2009). This is a selection of some of her scholarly work over more than two decades in which she theorized and analyzed the two basic feminist paradigms Muslims have historically generated and which they have labeled: secular feminism and Islamic feminism. Feminism beyond East and West: New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam (Global Media Publication, New Delhi, 2007), brings together a collection of her public intellectual work. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession IV - Gendering the Divide conference | This is the fourth and final conference in a series developed as part of the multiyear project titled “Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy: An International Crossdisciplinary Project.” Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project is designed to deepen understanding of the varieties and politics of secularism and the public role of religion, focusing on France, India, Turkey, and the U.S. This conference will focus on the role of gender in configurations of, and conflicts between, religion and secularism. We seek to promote reflection from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the gendered dimensions of the religion-secular distinction, and the role of this formation in feminist, and other scholarly and public discourses, on gender/sexuality. As an international, cross-disciplinary conference, the papers are grounded in a broad range of approaches, including case studies as well as historical, theoretical, and normative treatments. Some of the central questions being explored include how and why do issues of gender/sexuality function as sites of conflict over the proper alignment of religion and the secular? How has the religion-secular distinction worked, implicitly and explicitly, to shape the study of gender/sexuality and the articulation of emancipatory goals? What are the implications for theory and practice? How has the figure of the oppressed woman in religious traditions been invoked in national and global politics? What forms of secular power and violence have been occluded through such tropes? What new insights, models, and metaphors are needed to rethink the intersections of religion, secularism, and gender in an increasingly pluralistic and interactive global environment? | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSexual Sedition: Secularism, Moral Regulation, and the U.S. National Security State | Molly McGarry is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (2008);co-author (with Fred Wasserman) of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America (1999); and co-editor (with George Haggerty) of Blackwell’s A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (2007). | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRescued by Law': Secular Universalism, Religion and the Politics of Gender | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd writes and teaches about political culture, political theory, international relations, and foreign policy. She specializes in relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Her first book, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Arguing that secularist divisions between religion and politics are not fixed, as commonly assumed, but socially and historically constructed, the book examines the philosophical and historical legacies of two secularist traditions that shape European and American approaches to global politics. It then examines the impact of these varieties of secularism upon relations between the United States and Iran, and the European Union and Turkey. Hurd is currently developing a new book-length project that will examine the role of, and interactions between, political theology, law, and religion in international politics. She is also working on contributions for several edited volumes on secularism, religion, and international affairs. Hurd is a member of the Social Science Research Council Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs and a co-convenor of the Middle East and North African Studies Working Group at Northwestern University. In 2004-2005 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and in spring 2009 will be visiting faculty at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSexual Regulation and Secular Violence: A Nexus of Embodiment | Janet R. Jakobsen is Director of the Center for Research on Women, Professor of Women’s Studies, and Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her Ph.D. is from Emory University in Religious Studies with a specialization in the Ethics and Society. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (Indiana University Press 1998) and with Ann Pellegrini of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (New York University Press, 2003). Her most recent anthology, also with Ann Pellegrini, is Secularisms (Duke University Press, 2008), and she co-edited Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence with Elizabeth Castelli (Palgrave, 2004). Her current book project is Perverse Ethics: Secular Freedom and the Problem of Sex. She has held fellowships at the Udall Center for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Arizona, the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, and the Center for the Study of Values and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School and served as a visiting professor for Wesleyan University’s Ethics Project and Harvard University’s Program in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Before entering the academy, she was a policy analyst and organizer in Washington, D.C.. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanQueering France’s Religions | Nacira Guénif-Souilamas is Associate Professor at the University of Paris. Her Phd dissertation was awarded « Le prix le Monde de la recherche universitaire » published as Des beurettes aux descendantes d’immigrants nord-africains, Grasset (2000), and in a paperback edition under the title Des beurettes, Hachette-Pluriel (2003), translated in arabic in 2004. She has co-authored with Éric Macé Les féministes et le garçon arabe, L’Aube (2004, paperback edition in 2006). She has edited La république mise à nu par son immigration, La Fabrique (2006). A number of her contributions appeared in edited volumes : La fracture coloniale, Qui a peur de la télévision en couleurs ?, La situation postcoloniale, La reconnaissance dans les société contemporaines, Repenser l’éducation préscolaire, Histoire politique des luttes de l’immigration (post)coloniale), Migration und Menschenrechte in Europa, Frenchness and the African Diaspora ; and articles in reviews and journals such as La Revue Européenne des Migration Internationales ; French Politics, Culture and Society ; Contemporary French Civilization (invited ed) ; Cosmopolitiques (invited ed) ; Mouvements ; VEI Diversité ; European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. She is currently completing a serie of chapters for forthcoming edited volumes : La fracture postcoloniale, Israeli-Paslestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, Europe: Europeanizing Queer, and articles in Yale French Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She contributes to public debates on migrations and discriminations issues, ethnic and racial research, gender and sexism. She is a board member of the TERRA network. . | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession II - Gendering the Divide conference | This is the fourth and final conference in a series developed as part of the multiyear project titled “Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy: An International Crossdisciplinary Project.” Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project is designed to deepen understanding of the varieties and politics of secularism and the public role of religion, focusing on France, India, Turkey, and the U.S. This conference will focus on the role of gender in configurations of, and conflicts between, religion and secularism. We seek to promote reflection from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the gendered dimensions of the religion-secular distinction, and the role of this formation in feminist, and other scholarly and public discourses, on gender/sexuality. As an international, cross-disciplinary conference, the papers are grounded in a broad range of approaches, including case studies as well as historical, theoretical, and normative treatments. Some of the central questions being explored include how and why do issues of gender/sexuality function as sites of conflict over the proper alignment of religion and the secular? How has the religion-secular distinction worked, implicitly and explicitly, to shape the study of gender/sexuality and the articulation of emancipatory goals? What are the implications for theory and practice? How has the figure of the oppressed woman in religious traditions been invoked in national and global politics? What forms of secular power and violence have been occluded through such tropes? What new insights, models, and metaphors are needed to rethink the intersections of religion, secularism, and gender in an increasingly pluralistic and interactive global environment? | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIssues with Authority: Feminist Commitments in a Late Secular Age | David Kyuman Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and a member of the Associated Faculty in the Program in American Studies at Connecticut College, where he was also the inaugural director of the College’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. Since 2009, Kim has served as Senior Advisor at the Social Science Research Council and Editor-at-Large of The Immanent Frame. In spring 2009, he was the inaugural Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Brown University, as well as the Acting Program Director of the SSRC’s Program in the Religion and the Public Sphere. Kim is the author of Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Oxford 2007). He works in the areas of philosophy of religion, political theology, race and ethnic studies, memory, and political theory. During 2009-2010, the SSRC and The Immanent Frame has commissioned Kim to conduct “Rites and Responsibilities,” a dialogue forum on authority, accountability, sovereignty, and the public life of religion. Kim’s current book project is Future Perfect, Past Conditional: Memory, Tradition, Religion. He is also co-editor, with Philip Gorski and John Torpey, of the forthcoming volume Exploring the Postsecular | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSecularism and Gender Equality | Joan W. Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among her books are Gender and the Politics of History; Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man; Parite': Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism; and, most recently, the Politics of the Veil. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWomen and Religion: The Case of Hindu India | Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, in the Department of English. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, and was Shansi Visiting Professor at Oberlin College, Ohio. Before moving to New York she was Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College and Reader in the English faculty at the University of Oxford. Sunder Rajan’s publications include Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1993), and Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in Postcolonial India (Duke University Press, 2003). Her co-authored essay, 'Shahbano', which first appeared in Signs (1989), has been widely anthologized. Her most recent work is The Crisis of Secularism in India, jointly edited with Anuradha Needham (Duke University Press, 2006). She is currently completing a book on the Indian novel in English after Midnight’s Children. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGet them Pregnant,' Beyond Secularism or Religion: A Gendered Story of the Recent Events in Iran | Shahla Talebi is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University. A native of Iran, she lived through the 1979 Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War and left Iran in 1994 to the United States where she now resides. She received her undergraduate degree in social-cultural anthropology from University of California Berkeley and her masters and PhD, also in social cultural anthropology, from Columbia University. She is currently an assistant professor of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her research interests include questions of self sacrifice and martyrdom, violence, memory, trauma, death, burial, funerary rituals, commemoration and memorialization or their banning, religion, revolution, and nation-state in contemporary Iran. Talebi’s manuscript entitled Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran is forthcoming by Stanford University Press. Recent articles include: “From the Light of the Eye to the Eye of the Power” and "Who is Behind the Name? A Story of Voilence, Loss, and Melancholic Survival in Post-Revolutionary Iran" . She discusses the differences and similarities of political prisoners in Iran before and after the disputed presidential election for "The Week in Green." | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWomen, Religion and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zilka Spahic-Siljak, who holds a law degree from the University of Sarajevo in addition to her PhD, is a scholar, researcher, and activist with more than ten years experience working on issues of culture, religion, human rights, women's rights, and Islamic feminism in both the governmental and non-governmental sectors. She is currently the coordinator of the Religious Studies graduate program at the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Sarajevo, and is project coordinator for Researches in Gender and Education at the Transcultural and Psychosocial Foundation, where her team has published Gender Equality and Judicial Practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2007), Women, Religion, and Politics: The Impact of Religious Interpretations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the Status of Women in Public Life and Politics (2007), and An In-depth Study on Domestic Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2006). During the Spring 2009 semester she will serve as a visiting instructor at the University of Pittsburg. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession 1- Gendering the Divide conference | This is the fourth and final conference in a series developed as part of the multiyear project titled “Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy: An International Crossdisciplinary Project.” Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project is designed to deepen understanding of the varieties and politics of secularism and the public role of religion, focusing on France, India, Turkey, and the U.S. This conference will focus on the role of gender in configurations of, and conflicts between, religion and secularism. We seek to promote reflection from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the gendered dimensions of the religion-secular distinction, and the role of this formation in feminist, and other scholarly and public discourses, on gender/sexuality. As an international, cross-disciplinary conference, the papers are grounded in a broad range of approaches, including case studies as well as historical, theoretical, and normative treatments. Some of the central questions being explored include how and why do issues of gender/sexuality function as sites of conflict over the proper alignment of religion and the secular? How has the religion-secular distinction worked, implicitly and explicitly, to shape the study of gender/sexuality and the articulation of emancipatory goals? What are the implications for theory and practice? How has the figure of the oppressed woman in religious traditions been invoked in national and global politics? What forms of secular power and violence have been occluded through such tropes? What new insights, models, and metaphors are needed to rethink the intersections of religion, secularism, and gender in an increasingly pluralistic and interactive global environment? | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGender, Secularization and Laicity in Public Latin American Debates” | Roberto Blancarte is Professor and Director of the Center of Sociological Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He is the founder and main counselor of the Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Religions (PIER) of El Colegio Mexiquense in Zinacantepec, Mexico. His research has dealt with sociology of religion, particularly Church-State relations, secularisation, “laicity” and lately around the connection between secular State and sexual and reproductive rights. Author and editor of several books, including Historia de la Iglesia católica en México (1992); Religión, Iglesias y democracia (1995); Laicidad y valores en un estado democrático (2000); Afganistán, la revolución islámica frente al mundo occidental (2001); El sucesor de Juan Pablo II: Escenarios y candidatos del próximo cónclave (2002); Entre la fe y el poder: Política y religión en México (2004); Sexo, religión y democracia (2008); Los retos de la laicidad y la secularización en el mundo contemporáneo (2008); Para entender el Estado laico (2008) and numerous articles in scientific reviews. He writes weekly a column on politics and religion for a national newspaper (Milenio) and participates actively in local politics, particularly around the subject of civil freedoms. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Evolution of God | Robert Wright is editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv, a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of numerous books on science, religion, international policy, and human nature. He is a contributing editor for The New Republic and a contributor to Time and Slate. He has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Foreign Policy, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his awards include the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. Mr. Wright writes on a wide range of issues related to technology, religion, and foreign policy, particularly the war on terrorism. His 1994 cover story for The New Republic, "Be Very Afraid," warned about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists. In his 2000 book, Nonzero (which was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book), Wright noted how the evolution of information technology could exacerbate this problem, facilitating the translation of intense hatred into massive lethality. His most recent book, The Evolution of God, touches on a number of contemporary issues, including how to foster interfaith tolerance amid globalization. Mr. Wright is now focusing on the question of how best to shape a foreign policy that reckons with such trends, paying particular attention to issues of global governance. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThere's a Spirit that Transcends the Border: Religious Activists for Immigrant Rights | Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research has focused on gender and migration, informal sector work, and religion and the immigrant rights social movement. Most of these studies focus on Mexican and Central American immigrant communities, but she has also researched Muslim American immigrants in the post-9/11 era. She has authored or edited eight books, and she has held research and writing fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. She was given a Mellon Excellence in Mentoring Award for her work with graduate students, and the book Domestica won seven awards, including the Max Weber and the C.Wright Mills book awards. | 2/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMoral Judgment and the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur | Mathias Thaler is a Senior Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna, and specializes in contemporary political theory, intercultural philosophy, and international justice. His recent projects include work on the contributions of intercultural philosophy to human rights discourse, an examination of the uses and abuses of moral speech acts in political contexts beyond the nation state, and a critical exploration of the relationship between morality and politics. | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanReal Conflicts and Imagined Threats: Religion, Politics, and the Future of the Middle East | Rami Khouri is editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and a senior fellow at the Harvard University's JFK School of Government and the Dubai School of Government. With family in Beirut, Nazareth, and Amman, and involvement with leading research centers in the US, Khouri brings a nuanced understanding of the diverse local, regional, and international issues that make conflict in the Middle East conflict so complex. A winner of the Eliva-Sartawi award for Middle East Journalism, a co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award, and a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on U.S. relations with the Muslim World, Khouri’s incisive, semi-weekly articles, distributed by the International Herald Tribune, are widely praised for their fresh approach in examining the role of seemingly disparate topics like economics, culture, politics, religion, and archeology in Middle East conflict. Khouri’s voice is also heard frequently in the international media, including commentary and appearances in media outlets such as BBC radio and television, NPR, Al-Jazeera International, the Charlie Rose Show, the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Financial Times, and the Guardian/Observer. He lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world, and is a member of the Leadership Council of Harvard Divinity School, and a board member of the Center for Contemporary Studies at Georgetown University and the Jordan National Museum. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Committee of the Red Cross. A graduate of Syracuse University with degrees in political science and mass communications, Khouri lived for many years in Amman, Jordan, where he was editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times newspaper, hosted television and radio shows on current affairs and ancient history and archaeology, was general manager of Al Kutba Publishers, and consulted for the Jordanian tourism ministry on biblical archaeological sites. | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanReligion and Conflict: Alternative Visions; Interview with Rami Khouri | Rami Khouri is editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and a senior fellow at the Harvard University's JFK School of Government and the Dubai School of Government. With family in Beirut, Nazareth, and Amman, and involvement with leading research centers in the US, Khouri brings a nuanced understanding of the diverse local, regional, and international issues that make conflict in the Middle East conflict so complex. A winner of the Eliva-Sartawi award for Middle East Journalism, a co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award, and a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on U.S. relations with the Muslim World, Khouri’s incisive, semi-weekly articles, distributed by the International Herald Tribune, are widely praised for their fresh approach in examining the role of seemingly disparate topics like economics, culture, politics, religion, and archeology in Middle East conflict. Khouri’s voice is also heard frequently in the international media, including commentary and appearances in media outlets such as BBC radio and television, NPR, Al-Jazeera International, the Charlie Rose Show, the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Financial Times, and the Guardian/Observer. He lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world, and is a member of the Leadership Council of Harvard Divinity School, and a board member of the Center for Contemporary Studies at Georgetown University and the Jordan National Museum. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Committee of the Red Cross. A graduate of Syracuse University with degrees in political science and mass communications, Khouri lived for many years in Amman, Jordan, where he was editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times newspaper, hosted television and radio shows on current affairs and ancient history and archaeology, was general manager of Al Kutba Publishers, and consulted for the Jordanian tourism ministry on biblical archaeological sites. | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPeaceful Revolutions:Religion, Nonviolence, and Citizen Uprisings in the Late 20th Century | Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Director of Religious Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion. Her research primarily focuses on the sociology of religion and the role of religion in peace movements and nonviolent democratic uprisings. Before joining the faculty at the University of New Mexico, she was a visiting scholar at Notre Dame University and taught at the University of Southern Maine and Duquesne University. She is the author of numerous articles and two books: Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (2008, Cambridge University Press) and Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity Movement (2004, Oxford University Press). | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBecoming Modern: The Social Gospel and Gender Ideals for a New Era | Susan Curtis is Professor of History and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Purdue University. In recent years, her chief project in the classroom and in her research has involved the integration of the meaning of American culture in a multiracial and multiethnic society. She seeks ways to understand cultural collaboration and conflict across racial boundaries and to expose the power of culture to delimit opportunities, expression, acceptance, and citizenship. Professor Curtis is the author of several major works, including A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (1991), which demonstrates the interplay between sacred and secular realms in the reformulation of Protestant thought and practice between the 1880's and the 1920's. She has also published material related to the role of gender within the Social Gospel movement. | 4/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Clash Within: Religion, Pluralism, and the Future of Democracy | Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, which is a Chair that includes appointments to the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. Additionally, she holds Associate appointments in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and Co-Chairs the Human Rights Program. She is also the founder and Coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism and Co-director of the Center for Laws, Philosophy, and Human Values. In addition to her current position at the University of Chicago, Nussbaum has held teaching positions at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. Her work has encompassed a broad range of issues, with a particular focus on ancient philosophy, justice studies, gender theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Over the course of her career, Nussbaum has received numerous awards, including: the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction, the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays, the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, the Association of American University Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law, and the American Political Science Association's Elaine and David Spitz Award for the best book in liberal/democratic theory. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhat Would Walter Want?: Walter Rauschenbusch and the Future of Religious Progressivism | Christopher Evans is the Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of Church History and Director of United Methodist Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. An expert on American religious history and an active student of the history of the Social Gospel movement, Professor Evans is the author of The Kingdom is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch (2004), as well as the editor of The Social Gospel Today (2001). His upcoming book, Liberalism Without Illusions: Renewing an American Christian Tradition, will be published by Baylor University Press. | 3/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSociety as the Subject of Redemption: The Social Gospel, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Politics of Economic and Racial Justice | Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. An Episcopal priest, he was previously the Parfet Distinguished Professor at Kalamazoo College, where he taught for 18 years and also served as Dean of Stetson Chapel. Professor Dorrien is the author of 13 books and approximately 175 articles that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. Praised for their "intellectual creativity" and "stylish prose," these works include four books on social ethics and economic democracy, two acclaimed books on political neoconservatism, and a trilogy titled The Making of American Liberal Democracy: (I) Imagining Progressive Religion; (II) Idealism, Realism, and Modernity; (III) Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity. More than thirty reviewers have described the trilogy on liberalism as the definitive work in the field. The Expository Times called it "an endeavor best described, by all accounts, as magisterial, definitive, and authoritative." The Christian Century called it "a magnificent intellectual achievement." Boston University philosophical theologian Robert Neville wrote: "Dorrien is the most rigorous theological historian of our time, moving from analyses of social context and personal struggles through the most abstruse theological and metaphysical issues." | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPrivate Faith/Public Faith:Religion and Government | Daisy Khan is the Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), a New York based non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening an expression of Islam based on cultural and religious harmony and building bridges between Muslims and the general public. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | CleanVideoRun for the Whitehouse: Religion, Race, Gender, and the Media | Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. A national authority on religion and the media, her expertise includes religion, politics and the news media as well as religion and the entertainment media. A journalist and a scholar, Winston’s current research interests are media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity. Her work in American religion explores evangelicalism, gender, consumer culture and urbanization. Her recent books are Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (Harvard, 1999), Faith in the Market: Religion and Urban Commercial Culture (Rutgers, 2003), and Small Screen, Picture: Lived Religion and Television (Baylor, 2009). Eddie Glaude is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America(University of Chicago Press, 2000), and editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (University of Chicago Press, 2002). His newest book is entitled In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Professor Glaude also co- edited a volume entitled African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology(Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) with Cornel West. His research interests include American pragmatism, specifically the work of John Dewey, and African American religious history and its place in American public life. | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Peace: Early Discourses of the IMF, WHO, and IAEA | Clark Miller is associate director of CNS-ASU, with primary responsibility for the Center’s educational programs. His research focuses on science and technology policy, including particular emphases on the governance of new and emerging technologies and the global politics of expertise. Before joining ASU, he taught at Wisconsin and Iowa State and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also is a recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and over a dozen other major grants, including a Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education award. He serves on the advisory board of the Nanotechnology Informal Science Education Network and the Bovay Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society at the National Academy of Engineering. He is a founding co-organizer and member of the governing council of the Science and Democracy Network, a global professional community for research on the politics of science and technology. | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHeroic Impulses/Irenic Imperatives: Meditations on the Challenges and Prospects of Making peace (and Peace Studies) | Robert W. Hanning (Ph.D., Columbia, 1964) has been a member of the Columbia Faculty since 1963 and Professor of English since 1971. He was visiting Professor at Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and NYU; and taught at Bread Loaf School for English, Middlebury and Lincoln College, Oxford. His books include The Vision of History in Early Britain (1966); The individual in Twelfth-Century Romance (1977); and he is co-translator, with Joan Ferrante, of "The Lais" of Marie de France (1978). His research has been on Old and Middle English literature; Chaucer; medieval romance; Boccaccio, Castiglione, Ariosto, etc. Other teaching interests are 'race' and racism in American literature. | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNo Peace Without War: A Semantic Analysis of Binary Concepts | Robert LaBarge - Department of English Graduate Student | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Rhetoric of Religious Purification: An Analysis of Islamic Speeches in Indonesia | Peter Suwarno, Associate Professor in SILC (School of International Letters and Cultures | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPeace Sociolinguistics: Towards a Rhetoric and a Practice of Peace Values through Language | Patricia Marques Friedrich is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition/linguistics in the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in English linguistics, with an emphasis on sociolinguistics and a secondary concentration on historical linguistics, from Purdue University in 2001. She also received her M.A. in English from Purdue (1997), earning ESL (English as a Second Language) endorsement at the same time. Her undergraduate work was completed at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), where she was awarded her B.A. in English and Portuguese in 1992 | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAll Religions are Equal: Mahatma Gandhi and the Rhetoric and Religion of Ethics | In his research, Keith Miller mainly focuses on the rhetoric and songs of the civil rights movement. He is the author of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources, which was favorably reviewed in Washington Post and is widely cited. His essays on Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, Frederick Douglass, C.L. Franklin, and Fannie Lou Hamer have appeared in many scholarly collections and in such leading journals as College English, College Composition and Communication, PMLA, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, andJournal of American History. His essay “Second Isaiah Lands in Washington, D.C.: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ as Biblical Narrative and Biblical Hermeneutic” was awarded Best Essay of the Year in Rhetoric Review in 2007 | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Apocalyptic Rhetoric of Peace among the Russian Spiritual Christian Jumpers, 1911-1919 | Having been raised in New Orleans and Boston, Eugene Clay studied history at the University of Chicago, where he earned his BA, MA, and PhD degrees. Under the direction of Richard Hellie, he completed his dissertation on the Russian "flagellants" [khlysty] in 1989 and taught Russian history for several years at universities in Illinois and Colorado. In 1993 he began teaching in the Religious Studies Department at Arizona State University, where he writes and lectures about religious movements in Russia and Eurasia, the relationship between religion and nationalism, and the encounters of the world religions. | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Rhetoric of Peace in the Rituals of Hiroshima | James Foard - Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFailed Rhetoric: Italian Renaissance Images of Peace | Diane Wolfthal joined Rice University in 2008 after teaching at New York University and Columbia University, among others. Dr. Wolfthal has authored four books: The Beginnings of Netherlandish Canvas Painting: 1400-1530(Cambridge University Press,1989; 2nd printing, 1990), Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives (Cambridge University Press, 1999; paperback, 2000), and Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy (Brill, 2004). Her latest book, In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art, in press with Yale University Press, examines the intersection of sexuality and gendered spatial topography and the links between images of licit and illicit sexuality. She has also edited a collection of interdisciplinary essays, Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Co-Existence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Brepols, 2000) and co-edited two others. The first, Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (MRTS), appeared in 2005. Money, Morality and Culture in Early Modern Europe, which she co-edited with Juliann Vitullo and is in press with Ashgate, explores how the rise of the mercantile economy affected the art, literature, and values of Europe. She is currently completing the Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège: Early Netherlandish Paintings in Los Angeles, with Catherine Metzger. This will be published by the Centre d’étude de la peinture du quinzième siècle dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège in Brussels. Dr. Wolfthal is also co-editing a forthcoming Festschrift in honor of Professor Colin Eisler. She was a Founding Co-editor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and currently serves as its Forum co-editor and Art History Associate Editor. She is also a book series editor for Visualizing the Middle Ages, which is published by Brill. Dr. Wolfthal has been awarded both teaching awards and research grants, including the Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Art History Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2006), the Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2005), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships (2006, 2002-3), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends, (1993, 2001), and an American Association of University Women Educational Foundation American Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship (1997-98), and Leona Beckmann Fellowship (1991-1992). A specialist in late medieval and early modern European art, she has published numerous articles in such journals as The Art Bulletin, Gazette des Beaux Arts, Oud Holland, and Medieval Feminist Journal. She teaches courses on late medieval and early modern art, on such topics as Early Netherlandish painting, Multicultural Europe, Jewish culture, feminist analysis, and the history of sexuality. She has organized a conference, Crossing Borders: Visualizing Jewish/Christian and Jewish/Muslim Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Times, which will be held March 14-15, 2010. | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Rhetoric of Peace: Discussion and Questions | -- | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhat Do We Mean When We Say We Want Peace? | Ira Chernus (Ph.D., Temple University) is professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches courses on religion and nonviolence; religion, war and peace in U.S. history; and religion and nationalism. The former co-director of UC-Boulder’s Peace and Conflict Studies program, his research focuses on discourses of peace, war, foreign policy and nationalism in the United States. Professor Chernus is the author of nine books and numerous articles and essays. His most recent books include Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin (2006), in which he examines the symbols and stories of American culture in ways that shed surprising light on the interrelationship of terms such as “conservative moralism” and “liberal interventionism,” and American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea (2004), which covers the history of nonviolence from colonial times to the present. | 4/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThinking about Religion and the Secular speaker | M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). A devout Muslim, Dr. Jasser founded AIFD in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States as an effort to provide an American Muslim voice advocating for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, and the separation of mosque and state. Dr. Jasser is a first generation American Muslim whose parents fled the oppressive Assad regime of Syria in the mid-1960's for American freedom. He is leading the fight to shake the hold that the Muslim Brotherhood and their network of American Islamist organizations and mosques have on organized Islam in America. | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThinking about Religion and the Secular speaker | Jim Skillen directed the Center for Public Justice from 1981 through 2009, and served as a senior fellow on sabbatical from October 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010. Now retired from the Center, Skillen is engaged in full-time writing, mentoring, and speaking on political thought, statecraft, and public policy. His major writing project is focused on the biblical story as foundation for the human responsibility of governance in God's world; the challenge that story presents to the ways Christians have exercised political responsibility from earliest times to the present; and the profound resources of that story for the continuing work of governance, citizenship, and statecraft in our day. | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTerrorism: Why it Occurs and How it ends | Miriam Elman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and one of the Faculty Research Directors of International and Intra-state Conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). She is also the Director of the Project on Democracy in the Middle East (DIME) at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and a member of the Advisory Board and Steering Committees for the Judaic Studies Program, the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), and the Middle Eastern Studies Program. | 2/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTrials, Truth, and Amnesties: On the Compatibility of Forgiveness and Punishment in an Ethic of Political Reconciliation | Daniel Philpott is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame. He pursues interests in international relations and political philosophy. His current research revolves around the topic of reconciliation. In particular, he is looking at transitional justice, the question of how societies address past injustices, seeking to balance truth, justice, reconciliation, and stability. His first book, published in 2001, is Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (Princeton University Press), a historical account of how new ideas about justice and legitimate authority fashioned the global sovereign states system. | 2/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanLeveling Discourse: How the Concept of “Religious Violence” Obscures American Understandings of the Danish Cartoon Crisis | Matt Correa is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at Arizona State University, specializing in American religious history and theories of religion and confl ict. His current research investigates the implications of popular American understandings of religious violence, and he has taught courses in Native American religious history and American religious traditions. He is currently a research assistant for a Ford-funded research project titled “Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy.” | 2/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanViolence and the ‘Normal Mind’: Transhistorical Constructions of Religion and the Clash of Civilizations | William Cavanaugh (Ph.D., Duke University) is associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota). He specializes in systematic theology and social ethics, with publications covering public theology, religion and violence, terrorism, just war theory and torture. In his refl ections on theology and politics, Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform—or should embody and inform—Christian political witness. His first book, Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (1998), drew on his experiences living in Chile under the Pinochet regime in the 1980s. He has gone on to explore the relationship between religion, politics and violence in his subsequent books, Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (2002) and The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (2003, co-edited with Peter Scott), in which he seeks to provide more nuanced renderings of notions of religious | 2/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanResponse by Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University | Catherine Wessinger (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans. Beginning with her fi rst book, Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism (1988), Wessinger has published extensively on millennial movements, religion and violence, women and religion, and new religious movements. She is the author or editor of six books, including Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases (2000), How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate (2000), and Memories of the Branch Davidians: Autobiography of David Koresh’s Mother (2007). She is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. She lectures and provides media consultation on issues of millennialism, religious movements and violence, and is among scholars who have sought to establish communications with law enforcement agencies in the hope that future violent confrontations between those agencies and religious movements may be averted. She is currently editing The Oxford Handbook on Millennialism and the autobiographical account of Sheila Martin, a surviving Branch Davidian who lost her husband and four oldest children in the 1993 fire. | 2/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRethinking Religious Violence: Fighting Over Nothing | Hector Avalos (Ph.D., Harvard University) is professor of religious studies at Iowa State University, where he was named Professor of the Year in 1996 and a 2003-04 Master Teacher. He has published extensively in the fi eld of biblical studies and on topics related to religion and violence, U.S. Latina/o religion and literature, science and religion, and ancient health care. In his book, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (2005), Avalos argued for a new theory of religious violence that considered the role of scarcity in perpetuating confl ict through the lens of religious resources. Avalos also edited the first single-volume textbook on Latina/o religious experience, The U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience (2004), followed by his study, Strangers in Our Own Land: Religion in U.S. Latina/o Literature (2005). Avalos’s The End of Biblical Studies (2007), is a provocative examination of the current state of his own field. His most recent volume, This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies (2007), is a co-edited work that explores how disabilities are conceptualized by biblical authors. Overall, he views his work on violence, health, and disability is part of a newly emerging area of corporeal studies that focuses on the embodied human experience | 2/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIslam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School. An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives, Professor An-Na'im teaches courses in human rights, religion and human rights, Islamic law, and criminal law. His research interests also include constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, and Islam and politics. He directs several research projects which focus on advocacy strategies for reform through internal cultural transformation. | 11/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTwo Steps Toward Hell: The Scare Mongers, The Caliphate, and Islamofascism | Michael Scheuer brings vast experience and expertise to matters connected to terrorism and the world's response to it. He authored the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller, Imperial Hubris, originally published anonymously, as required by the Central Intelligence Agency. The former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit, he resigned in November 2004 after nearly two decades of experience in covert action and national security issues related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle East. Imperial Hubris has been translated into Polish, Chinese, Greek, Arabic, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and Portuguese. As “Anonymous,” he is also the author of Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Scheuer's writings also have appeared in the Atlantic, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Antiwar.com, New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, the National Interest, and the American Interest. Scheuer has been featured on such national television news programs as Meet the Press, Nightline, 60 Minutes, and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, as well as on international television news programs in Britain, Australia, France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, China, and Germany. He has been interviewed for broadcast media and documentaries -- including Frontline, the History Channel, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and PBS -- and has been the focus of print media worldwide. Scheuer holds a B.A., two M.A.'s, and a Ph. D. Scheuer is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, a consultant for CBS's 60 Minutes, and a Senior Fellow and regular contributor to the Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Focus. | 10/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIslamic Ethics and Gender: Towards an Ethics of Compassion | Amina Wadud has been a Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1992 and is currently Visiting Scholar of Islamic Studies at the Starr King School for Ministry. She is a world-renowned scholar of Qur’anic interpretation and gender, a believing Muslim woman, of African descent, and mother of five children. It is this confluence of identities that has driven Prof. Wadud to undertake what has been termed the “gender jihad,” the struggle for justice for women within global Islamic communities. The author of countless articles, lectures, workshop presentations and media interviews, Wadud is internationally recognized for her pathbreaking books Qur’an and Woman, an incisive application of classical disciplines and prerequisites of Islamic interpretation towards a gender inclusive reading, and Inside the Gender Jihad, in which she reflects on the dual roles of scholarship and activism in pursuit of reform in Islamic thought and practice. In 2005, she was at the center of a global media storm after leading prayers in front of a mixed-gender congregation in New York City, a role some contend belongs exclusively to Muslim men. Her act resulted in a global and public debate among Muslims and non-Muslims about women’s roles in Islam. Selected Bibliography: Introduction to Islam: A Reader. Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa. upcoming. Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam. Oneworld, 2006. “Muslim Women: Between Citizenship and Faith,” Women and Citizenship. ed. Marilyn Friedman. Oxford University Press, 2005. Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective. Oxford University Press, 1999. | 3/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhen Religion Brings Peace, Not War | David R. Smock is the vice president of United States Institute of Peace's (USIP) Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution and associate vice president of the Religion and Peacemaking program, one of the Centers of Innovation. Previously he served as director of the USIP's Grant program and coordinator of Africa activities. He has worked on African issues for over thirty years and lived in Africa for eleven years. As a staff member of the Ford Foundation from 1964 to 1980, he served in Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, and New York. From 1980 to 1986, Smock served concurrently as director of the South African Education Program, a scholarship program that brings black South African students to U.S. universities, and vice president for program development and research for the Institute of International Education. After serving as executive associate to the president of the United Church of Christ from 1986 to 1989, Smock became executive director of International Voluntary Services, supervising development projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University and a M.Div. from New York Theological Seminary. | 11/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanReligion and American Foreign Policy | Jack Miles, MacArthur Fellow (2002-2007), visiting scholar at Occidental College, is the author of God: A Biography, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into 15 languages, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and many other publications. Over a period of nearly 20 years (1975-95), Miles was successively an editor at Doubleday, the executive editor at the University of California Press, the literary editor at the Los Angeles Times, and a member of the Times editorial board, writing on politics and culture. A Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University, Miles has been a Mellon visiting professor of humanities at Caltech, the director of the Humanities Center at the Claremont Graduate University, the regents lecturer at the University of California, and a visiting fellow with the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. Born in Chicago in 1942, Miles was a Jesuit seminarian from 1960 to '70, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before beginning his doctoral studies at Harvard. He is fluent in several languages. Since 1986, he has lived in Pasadena, Calif., with his wife, Jacqueline, a clinical psychologist, and their daughter, Kathleen. Selected Bibliography: Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (Knopf, 2001) God: A Biography (Knopf, 1995) The Perils of Pluralism: In Quest of a Common Literary Culture (1990) | 10/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | CleanVideoAmerican Gospel | Jon Meacham is the co-host of the PBS television newsmagazine Need to Know. Beginning in January 2011, he will also be an executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. A former editor of Newsweek, he is a Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America. | 9/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAmerican Gospel | Jon Meacham is the co-host of the PBS television newsmagazine Need to Know. Beginning in January 2011, he will also be an executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. A former editor of Newsweek, he is a Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America. | 9/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInterpreting Islam: Politics, the Media and the Academy | Carl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of Islam and Sufism. His current projects include Muslim interpretations of Hinduism and the literary translation of the Qur'an. He also has interests in hagiography, Hindu-Muslim cross-cultural encounters, history of the Deccan, and pre-modern South Asian history. On the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1992, he has been department chair (1995-2000) and Zachary Smith Professor (2000-2005). He is now William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor (2005- ) and Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. Selected Bibliography: Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003). Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond (co-authored with Bruce Lawrence, 2002). Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center (1993). | 3/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Rise of Religious Terrorism | Peter Bergen, author and CNN terrorism analyst, recently served as a Pew Journalist-In-Residence at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Personal website:www.peterbergen.com | 4/29/03 | Free | View In iTunes |
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