Check out our latest paper in the ongoing Luce Foundation funded series, “Working Papers on Key Issues in Religion and World Affairs” We have a paper from Melani McAlister, Associate Professor of American Studies & International Affairs, George Washington University. Its called Homosexuality and Humanitarianism: The case of Rick Warren in Africa, and follows a […]
The working papers are flooding in as we finish up our grant with the Henry R. Luce Foundation. Our latest is from Richard B. Miller, scholar of religion and ethics, of the University of Chicago. You can read his paper entitled “Normativity and Social Criticism in the Study of Religion” here.
Check out our latest paper in the ongoing Luce Foundation funded series, “Working Papers on Key Issues in Religion and World Affairs” Last week we had a talk and paper from Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. You can read his paper, entitled “How Morality Looks from a God’s-Eye Point […]
Bob Hefner has been named to the executive board of the newly-formed Indonesia-US Council on Religion and Pluralism. Click here for more info.
CURA Director Robert W. Hefner was interviewed on July 19th on live television on Singapore’s Channel News Asia. The program, called “First Look Asia”, focused on the killing of Santoso (real name Abu Wardah), the most-wanted terrorist in Indonesia, who died in an anti-terrorist raid. Hefner addressed questions around whether Santoso’s death represents a turning […]
A two year project between the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and CURA has resulted in a series of blog post articles on topics of “Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanisms: Religion, Public Ethics, and Citizenship in Plural Societies”. Find researcher Azeddine Hmimssa’s article on “Catholics, Muslims and secularists in Quebec: Citizenships in tension […]
A two year project between the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and CURA has resulted in a series of blog post articles on topics of “Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanisms: Religion, Public Ethics, and Citizenship in Plural Societies”. Find researcher Ahmet Yukleyen’s article on “The Un-Dutchable challenge of pluralism” on the University of Notre […]
A two year project between the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and CURA has resulted in a series of blog post articles on topics of “Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanisms: Religion, Public Ethics, and Citizenship in Plural Societies”. Find researcher Carol Ferrara’s article on “Struggling to mieux vivre ensemble: The sobering reality of […]
A two year project between the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and CURA has resulted in a series of blog post articles on topics of “Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanisms: Religion, Public Ethics, and Citizenship in Plural Societies”. Find researcher Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu’s article on “Los Angeles: A microcosm for national conversations on […]
A two year project between the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and CURA has resulted in a series of blog post articles on topics of “Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanisms: Religion, Public Ethics, and Citizenship in Plural Societies”. Find Director Bob Hefner’s article on “The new western plurality and citizen co-existence” on the […]