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| 20th Anniversary Research Colloquium |
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| Kathy |
| 02/15/03 at 10:52:37 |
| [slm] An invitation I received from my Interfaith Group: [code] For your information... I know this gentleman and this would be a very interesting experience. Pass it on to whomever you wish. Becky Mebert ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Henderson Subject: CrossCurrents Fellowship Applications Invited Announcing the 20th Anniversary Research Colloquium Spend the month of July in New York working on a research or writing project of your choice with access to libraries and research facilities at Columbia University, Union, Auburn, and Jewish Theological Seminaries. At a time when religion appears to be at the heart of humanity's gravest conflicts, it is clear that an increased understanding of how religion affects our lives is not an option: it is a necessity for survival. For 20 years CrossCurrents has sponsored the research colloquium because we want to have an impact not only on how religion is taught and studied, but also on the way it influences events that touch us all. To that end we invite applications for a fellowship that will allow you to spend a month at our expense in a collaborative learning community, diverse in race, age, gender, religion and intellectual discipline working on a project of your design. The successful applicant will have a capacity for integrating personal faith with the life of the mind, and will outline a project that will be of interest to those outside his or her area of academic specialization or religious tradition. In addition to research and writing projects, we also encourage projects that incorporate the creative arts. Staff for the Colloquium: Charles Henderson is Executive Director, ARIL / CrossCurrents. Brin Stevens is Managing Editor, CrossCurrents. Resource Theologians: Farid Esack occupies the Brueggemann Chair in Interreligious Studies, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to that he has taught at Ohio University, the College of William & Mary, and Auburn Seminary in the US and at Hamburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Western Cape in South Africa. From 1997-2001 he was South African Commissioner for Gender Equality, appointed by President Nelson R. Mandela. His publications include: An Introduction to the Qur'an (Oxford: Oneworld, 2002); On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999, 2002); Qur'an, Liberation & Pluralism (Oxford: Oneworld, 1997, 2002). He is currently working on In Search of Progressive Islam: The Contexts, Struggles & Ideas of Leading Progressive Muslims in the World Today. James S. Diamond is Director of the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University where he also teaches Comparative Literature and Religion. Rabbi Diamond received his Rabbinic Ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary and his doctorate in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include: The First Words: Reading the Beginnings of the Five Books of Moses (forthcoming) and Homeland or Holy Land? The "Canaanite" Critique of Israel ( Indiana. 1986). Stephanie Mitchem is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of African American Studies at University of Detroit Mercy. With a commitment to liberatory educational practice, she teaches contemporary theology, African American studies, and women's studies. She is a contributing editor for CrossCurrents. Mitchem holds a Bachelor of Arts from Sacred Heart Seminary College (Detroit, Michigan), Master of Theological Studies from St. John Provincial Seminary (Plymouth, Michigan) and a doctorate from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary/Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois). She is the author of: Introducing Womanist Theology (Orbis 2002) and is working on her next book, Tapping Power: African American Women, Healing, and Spirituality. ForFurther information please visit our website: www.CrossCurrents.org Or call: Charles Henderson, Executive Director, CrossCurrents 212-870-2544 Or write: CrossCurrents Colloquium, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1945, New York,NY10115 Or email: colloquium@crosscurrents.org [/code] |
| 02/15/03 at 10:53:41 |
| Kathy |
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