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Decolonizing Interreligious Studies and Dialogue

Please join us for a talk about the importance of interreligious studies and dialogue issues.

Oludamini Ogunnaike
Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy

Oludamini Ogunnaike is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in African studies and the study of religion from Harvard University, along with an A.B. in cognitive neuroscience and African studies from Harvard College. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a Rockefeller Fellowship while an undergraduate student at Harvard. He also won a Gordon W. Allport Prize for his senior thesis, “The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes” in 2006-2007. He continued to study language and how it can affect perception and prejudice.

K. Christine Pae
Professor, Chair of Religion, Denison University

K. Christine Pae, is professor of religion and women’s and gender studies and chair of the Department of Religion. Trained as a social ethicist, she specializes in transnational feminist ethics, ethics of peace and war, spiritual activism, sexual ethics, and Asian/Asian American feminist theologies. Many of her publications take U.S. military prostitution in South Korea as a critical site for producing feminist knowledge concerning militarized violence, faith-based popular resistance, and a theology of peace. She has authored A Transpacific Imagination of Theology, Ethics, and Spiritual Activism (2023) and co-edited Embodying Antiracist Christianity (2023) and Searching for the Future in the Past: Renewing Feminist Theological Voices (2024).

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The Catholic-Muslim Studies Program Presents: Decolonizing Interreligious Studies and Dialogue Speaker: Oludamini Ogunnaike, PhD Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia K. Christine Pae, PhD Professor, Chair of Religion, Denison University Zoom Link HERE October 21, 2025 7:00 PM CT   Questions?  Please email sarizwan@ctu.edu