On September 27-29, 2013, the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington will host a conference entitled “Religious Studies 50 Years after Schempp: History, Institutions, Theory.” Conference organizers have issued a call for papers.
Posts Tagged ‘higher education’
March 19th, 2013
Conference: Religion and the Idea of a University
posted by Danny Steinmetz-JenkinsReligion and the Idea of a Research University, an interdisciplinary project of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of Cambridge, will be hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference (April 3-5) exploring the question of: What place does religion have in the Western research university?
December 5th, 2012
Funding for atheists
posted by Candice ScharfRecently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave the student organization, Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) $69,000, the largest amount of grant money ever given to a non-theistic, student-led organization by a college or university.
May 14th, 2012
The graduation wars
posted by John D. BoyIn Il Sussidiario, Michael Sean Winters gives his opinion on the recent controversies surrounding commencement speakers invited to Catholic institutions of higher education.
May 4th, 2012
Catholic doctrine and universities
posted by Candice ScharfIn a recent article, Libby A. Nelson discusses the role of faith in Catholic universities and puts forth the question, how Catholic are these institutions?
February 23rd, 2012
The NYPD’s religious profiling
posted by John D. BoyTa-Nehisi Coates comments on the New York Police Department’s profiling of Muslim student populations throughout the northeastern U.S.
July 27th, 2011
The house that D’Souza built?
posted by Charles GelmanEarlier this year, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, a former adjunct professor at King’s College, wrote an exposé for Killing the Buddha on the small Evangelical and—at least in the eyes of its authorities, if not in those of all of its students—politically conservative college housed in New York’s Empire State Building. Now, Andrew Marantz, of New York Magazine, takes a closer look at D’Souza’s tenure, the college’s sense of its vocation, and the student body being trained to become, in D’Souza’s words, “dangerous Christians.”
July 18th, 2011
The “Axis of Antisemitism”
posted by Amanda KaplanJonathan Rauch responds to James Kirchick’s Tablet Magazine article on the shuttering of Yale’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism.
May 17th, 2011
Claremont School of Theology to train Christians, Jews, and Muslims
posted by Grace YukichThis week, Claremont School of Theology in California announced that a large financial gift will allow them to transform the seminary into an institution that will train Christians, Jews, and Muslims. According to The Los Angeles Times, the new university—which will be called Claremont Lincoln University, in the couple’s honor—will serve as an umbrella for three largely separate programs: the existing program for Christian pastors-in-training, another program for rabbis, and a third for imams.
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