Professor Jeffrey Rubin guest-edited a special issue of the Latin American Research Review entitled, “Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America’s Zones of Crisis,” along with David Smilde of Tulane University and Ben Junge of SUNY-New Paltz. Rubin directed the four-year collaborative project, based at CURA, that examined the ways in which religious and […]
Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu is a Research Fellow for the Public Ethics and Citizenship in Plural Societies research cluster of Contending Modernities program, funded by CURA and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame. Ahmet carried out research in Boston, San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles over the last 2 […]
Carol Ferrara is a Research Fellow for the Contending Modernities project funded by CURA and the Kroc Institute for Peace at Notre Dame. Carol has been carrying out research in Paris, Lyon and Lille, France over the past 15 months. The following photos are from Bob Hefner’s visit to Paris in early October 2014. […]
Contrary to some media mis-impressions, Islamic education in most countries of the world is dynamic and forward-looking. On October 29-31, the Faculty of Tarbiya and Teacher Training at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta, Indonesia, hosted an international conference on innovation in Islamic […]
Information is now available for the Religion Fellows Program for Faculty who include religion in their academic research area. The seminar series is funded by stipend. Click here for information on the program.
On April 10, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, professor of political science at Northwestern University and the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton 2008), spoke to a audience on the politics of religious freedom. Hurd is co-organizer of a multiyear project of the same name, funded by the Luce Foundation.
With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, CURA joined with the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia to organize the first international conference in a three year project on how states and societies are responding to religious change in eight Southeast Asian Countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, […]
Toby Matthiesen, research fellow at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge in England joined us for a talk on the 20th of March, entitled ‘Sectarianism in the Middle East’. Matthiesen argues that gulf state regimes pit citizens against each other with the narrative of a “Shia threat”. He estimates that this is an attempt […]
Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu is a Research Fellow in the ongoing project on Catholics, Muslims, and the New Pluralist Citizenship in the U.S, Canada, Netherlands, and France. The project is sponsored by the Kroc Institute for Peace at Notre Dame University and CURA. Ahmet has been carrying out research on inter-faith relations in Los Angeles and […]
Paul Freston, Professor and Chair of Religion and Politics in the Global Context at Wilfred Laurier University, and one of the world’s leading authorities on Latin American religions, Christian Pentecostal and Evangelical politics. On March 3 Freston spoke to a rapt audience on the impact of Pentecostals on Brazilian politics, suggesting that Pentecostal influence may […]