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"Interfaith Dialogue, Reality or Myth?"
TOLERANCE DAY PANEL, November 17th 2003
BMDG has organized panel on UNESCO's International Tolerance Day, the 17th of November. Renowned experts reflected their point of views and discussed the reality and limitations of interfaith dialog.
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News about the Tolerance Day Panel
Moderator
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Rev. Rebecca Jimenez
Campus Minister of the Center for University Ministry at IU
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Panel Speakers
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R. Kevin Jaques
Professor, Religious Studies
Indiana University
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Harold Vogelaar
Professor, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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Donald W. Mitchell
Professor, Comparative Philosophy
Purdue University
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Location
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Panel
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Reception (After Panel)
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Indiana University
Indiana Memorial Union,
Frangipani Room
900 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
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Indiana University
Indiana Memorial Union,
The President's Room (University Club)
900 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
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R. Kevin Jaques
Professor, Religious Studies, Indiana University
Ph.D., Emory University (2001). Islamic legal history, Islam in Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean communities, Islam in the United States, religious authority in times of social and cultural upheaval, methods and methodologies in the academic study of religion, ethnography.
His dissertation, A Muslim History of Islamic Law: Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's Tabaqat al-fuqaha' al-Shafi'iyah looks at how Abu Bakr b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Qadi Shuhbah describes the history of Islamic law into the late medieval period. In his dissertation Prof. Jaques argues that Ibn Qadi Shuhbah wrote his text in reaction to political, economic, environmental, and religious crises that resulted in the disruption of traditional structures of religious authority in medieval Muslim society.
He is also currently working on a project examining how Islam has been studied in the academic study of religion and how Islam can better be understood through the integration of textual and ethnographic methods. In addition, He is currently researching the role of women as scholars and jurists in classical and medieval Islamic jurisprudence.
Harold Vogelaar
Professor,Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Education
B.A. Central College
B.D. New Brunswick Theological Seminary
M.Phil. Columbia University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Biography
Harold S. Vogelaar is resident scholar of world religions at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. In addition to teaching, he is on special assignment to the Chicago Center for Global Ministries; is working with the Division for Global Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA); and the Chicago Synod of the Reformed Church in America on interfaith and cross-cultural ministry in North America.
Ordained in 1962 and sent out in 1963, Vogelaar was a missionary in the Arabian Gulf and Egypt for many years where he served congregations, was a hospital chaplain, and taught and directed the Center for Study of Religion at the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Cairo, Egypt. Upon returning to the United States in 1988, Vogelaar taught at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N.J., before joining the seminary's faculty in 1990.
Respected for his expertise in interfaith relations, Vogelaar served on the executive council of the interfaith relations committtee of the National Council of Churches of Christ (NCCC) and chaired its committee of Christian-Muslim relations. In 1999, he served on the NCCC working group that developed a policy statement on interfaith relations that includes a study guide, theological commentary and worship service. In addition, he is co-chair of the Conference for Improved Muslim-Christian Relations of Greater Chicago and serves on the executive committee of Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding.
Widely published in the area of interfaith relations, Vogelaar's articles and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Lutheran, Muslim World, Theological Review, New World Outlook, and World Encounter.
Vogelaar received the bachelor of arts degree from Central College, Pella, Iowa, and the bachelor of divinity degree from New Brunswick Theological Seminary. The master of philosophy and doctor of philosophy degrees were bestowed by Columbia University, N.Y. in the department of Middle East languages and cultures.
Areas of Expertise
Topics that Dr. Vogelaar is available to address at adult forums and other congregational events
Christian-Muslim Relations
Global Mission
Middle East
World Religions
Titled Presentations
Greet and Meet Your Muslim Neighbors (2-5 sessions)
Introduction to Islam (2-5 sessions)
Ministry in a Multi-faith Community (1-2 sessions)
Profile
Harold Vogelaar, resident scholar in missions and world religions, has served on the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago faculty since 1989. His special area of scholarly work and passion is Islamic studies. Fluent in Arabic, he lived for many years in the Middle East, serving in the Arabian Gulf and Egypt as a pastor, co-director of refugee services, educator and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Religion at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo. The seminary community knows him best as someone in touch with the Muslim communities in Chicago and who is deeply involved in Christian-Muslim relations, always eager to build bridges of understanding between the two communities. Married to Mai from Thailand, they live on campus.
Donald W. Mitchell
Professor, Comparative Philosophy, Purdue University
Donald W. Mitchell is professor of comparative philosophy at Purdue University and a member of Purdue’s Religious Studies Program. He has published and worked in the area of interreligious dialogue since 1978, especially in the Buddhist-Christian dialogue. His books in that field include: Spirituality and Emptiness, Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue, The Gethsemani Encounter, Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience, and his newest book, Transforming Suffering: Finding Peace in Troubled Times.
Mitchell is a founding member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, and co-director of the International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter. As advisor on interfaith dialogue for the Vatican and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, he has helped to organize and contribute to all of the Vatican’s Buddhist-Christian encounters in Asia, as well as those of the USCCB in the United States.
Recently, Mitchell has used his experience and contacts in interfaith relations to bring together a number of institutions to build a collaboration to contribute to better understanding between the United States and the Muslim world. This collaboration includes Indiana University, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, Columbia University, the Catholic University of America, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, the Council for Islamic Organizations in Chicago, the American Society of Muslims, the Council for American-Islamic Relations, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, the Christian Theological Seminary, the USCCB, the National Council of Churches in Christ, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions, and the World Conference on Religion and Peace.
Rev. Rebecca Jimenez
Campus Minister of the Center for University Ministry at IU
Rev. Jimenez has been at the Center since July 1999. A native of Indiana, she has lived in Mexico and Puerto Rico, and has relocated to Bloomington from New Jersey, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts from William Paterson University and a Master of Divinity from The Theological School of Drew University. Since her ordination by the American Baptist Churches/USA in 1996, Rebecca Jimenez has served as Campus Minister at Saint Peter's College, a Jesuit institution in Jersey City, and as Interim Associate at her home church, Emmanuel Baptist, Ridgewood, NJ. Her interests include process, feminist and liberation theologies, Latin America, women's issues, and the "search for God in all things.
She recently led a discussion on the challenges that we faced after September 11 in BMDG Coffe Hour on September 12, 2003.
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