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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Interreligious Studies and Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Decolonizing Interreligious Studies and Dialogue\nWhat have been historically colonial ways of doing interreligious studies and dialogue? Why is it important to recognize such frameworks? How do we shift both interreligious studies and dialogue toward decolonial approaches? Join us for a discussion with two leading scholars\, who work on the theory and practice of decoloniality\, to respond to the aforementioned questions and discuss ways to move forward. \n  \nOludamini Ogunnaike\, PhDAssociate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy\, University of Virginia \n  \nOludamini Ogunnaike\, PhD is Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia. His research examines the philosophical and artistic dimensions of postcolonial\, colonial\, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa\, especially Sufism and Ifa. He also works on the Philosophy of Religion\, African Philosophy\, Anthropology\, Decoloniality\, Race\, and the modern state in Africa. Ogunnaike is the author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa\, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020)\, winner of the Outstanding First Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)\, and Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents (2020). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nK. Christine Pae\, PhDProfessor of Religion/Ethics and Women’s and Gender Studies\, Denison University \nK. Christine Pae\, PhD is Professor of Religion/Ethics and Women’s and Gender Studies and Chair of the Religion Department at Denison University in Ohio. Trained as a social ethicist\, Pae teaches and researches ethics of peace and war\, transnational feminist ethics and theologies\, spiritual activism\, and U.S. military prostitution industries in Asia. Her emerging research is the global alliance of Christian Zionism. She is the author of A Transpacific Imagination of Theology\, Ethics\, and Spiritual Activism: Doing Feminist Ethics Transnationally (2023) and the co-editor of Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian/American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations (2023) and Searching for the Future in the Past: Reclaiming Feminist Theological Visions (2024). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSyed Atif Rizwan\, PhDHost Assistant Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies\, Director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies ProgramChair\, Department of Intercultural Studies and Ministry at CTU \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis event will be available ONLY online. \nCo-Sponsored By\n \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/decolonizing-interreligious-studies-and-dialogue/
CATEGORIES:The Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
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SUMMARY:Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue\nPlease join us for a talk about the importance of promoting inclusivity and diversity in interreligious dialogue and studies. The panelists will discuss the necessity to raise and embrace Asian perspectives in meaningful dialogue that fosters understanding and respect. \n  \nDr. Martin Nguyễn\, PhDProfessor of Islamic Studies\, Fairfield University \n  \nDr. Martin Nguyen’s work revolves around Muslim theology\, ethics\, spirituality\, Qur’anic studies\, and the intersection of race and religion. His current research focuses on theological responses to global mass displacement and modern structural racism. He is the author of Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination (Rowman & Little Field\, 2019)\, which presents a contemporary theology rooted in the religious imagination. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Joanne Jaruko Doi\, MM\, PhDAssc. Prof. of Intercultural Theologies and Ministry\, Catholic Theological Union \nDr. Joanne Jaruko Doi\, MM\, was born in Los Angeles\, CA\, and is one of five children. During World War II\, her father and grandfather were sent to the Manzanar Relocation Camp\, where the St. Francis Xavier (Maryknoll) parish community served all the Japanese who were interned. After the war\, the Maryknoll parish and grade-school community was restored in Los Angeles\, where Jaruko was nurtured in faith\, education\, and culture. Among her publications is “Japanese American Journeys of Remembrance\, Identity and Solidarity\,” in the T & T Clark Handbook to Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics (T&T Clark\, 2019). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis event will be available ONLY online.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/raising-asian-voices-in-interreligious-dialogue/
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