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Boniuk Center
Research Seminar
Information for Faculty and Graduate Students
Boniuk Center Research Seminar
The Research
Seminar of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious
Tolerance has three purposes:
1) to provide a forum for
faculty, graduate students,
and visiting scholars to present new work on topics that bear on
religious
tolerance (possible topics include but are not limited to the
emergence/study
of religious traditions, the history of religious conflicts,
comparative
studies of religions of all kinds, studies of individual thinkers and
texts,
studies of missionary activity or conquest/conversion, and studies of
intersections
between religion and politics or religion and other spheres of
life);
2) to support research on
all topics relevant to the
mission of the Center;
3) to build and sustain a
community among scholars
at Rice whose work bears on the idea of religious tolerance broadly
construed.
Established in July of
2004, the Center supports research on
a wide range of topics related to religious tolerance and promulgates
this
knowledge with the aims of understanding and promoting conditions
conducive
to sustainable, peaceful co-existence among people of different
religions.
The research seminar of the
Center meets
monthly. Papers are
circulated
in advance. Rice faculty and graduate students who participate
regularly
in the seminar can apply for a limited amount of research/travel money
from the Boniuk Center with the understanding that those who receive
awards
will present a paper in the research seminar within 2 years. Decisions
regarding funding will be made by a committee of the Faculty Advisory
Board
of the Center. Members of this Board are listed below.
If you or your students
would like to participate in
the seminar, or if you would like to present a paper in the Spring (we
have a few spots open), please let me know at your earliest
convenience.
Papers should (with very few exceptions) be works in progress rather
than
published articles. Thanks very much.
| Faculty Executive
Committee: |
| Mahmoud
el-Gamal (Economics) |
| Jim
Faubion (Anthropology) |
| Anne
Klein (Religious Studies) |
| Jeffrey
Kripal (Religious Studies) |
| Paula
Sanders (History) |
| Anthony
Pinn (Religious Studies) |
| Gregory
Kaplan (Religious Studies; liaison
to the Houston Holocaust Museum) |
| Allen
Matusow (History; liaison to the
Baker Institute) |
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Spring Seminar Schedule
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( Time is 4 PM-6 PM)
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Location
is Founders' Room, 2nd Floor, Entrance B, Lovett Hall
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- January 25, 2005: Eva Haverkamp, "What
did Christians Know? Latin Reports on the Persecutions of
1096."
- February 24, 2005: David Gray, "Compassionate
Violence? On the Ethical Implications of Tantric Buddhist Ritual"
- March 15, 2005: Anne Dayton, “District Visitors and other “Amphibious
Animals”: Charitable Visiting and Middle-Class Identity
- April 20, 2005: Philip Wood,"Beyond the Simulacrum of Religion versus
Secularism: Modernist Aesthetic 'Mysticism'; Or, Why We Will Not Stop
Revering 'Great Books'."
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