Travel grants of up to $500 are provided to Boston University students who wish to travel outside of Boston for a conference or to conduct research on a subject related to CURA’s mission. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To Apply: Send an explanation of the purpose of the travel, along with a budget […]
Dr. Bob Hefner continued his travel to Indonesia in Jan. & March, shooting & editing of the 3 of 6 films in the Henry Luce Foundation funded series, “Indonesian Pluralities.” It shows the diversity of social and religious life in Indonesia, and the challenge this poses for citizenship and peace in this largest Muslim society in […]
Professor Bob Hefner sent us photos from the field of his work creating a documentary on Indonesia and the lessons that can be learned about religious pluralism. Click below to see. Indonesian Pluralisms
On September 29th, 2017, Professor Robert W. Hefner will present the keynote address at the opening of a conference on “A Civil Islam: Prospects and Challenges in the 21st Century,” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event is sponsored by the Malaysia-based Islamic Renaissance Front, which was founded in 2009 and describes itself as “an intellectual […]
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.
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 […]