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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:26:14 -0700
From: Vincent Biondo <vbiondo@YAHOO.COM>
Reply-To: Vincent Biondo <vbiondo@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: [ISLAMAAR] Ethics, Religion and Civil Discourse NEH Conference Call
for Papers
To: ISLAMAAR@LISTS.PSU.EDU
Dear Islam AAR Colleagues,
I am hosting the following conference in October at California State University,
Fresno and hope that some of you will be interested.
Best Regards,
Vince Biondo
Ethics, Religion, and Civil Discourse
National Endowment for the Humanities
California State University, Fresno
October 13-15, 2011
The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring a two-year project based
in the Philosophy Department at Fresno State to research increased religious
diversity in public schools. This call for papers is for our inaugural
academic conference, which will be followed by an edited volume and summer
workshop for teachers including curricular recommendations. In 1955 Will
Herberg defined Religion in America as Protestant-Catholic-Jew following the
successful integration of Catholic and Jewish immigrants. Then the Immigration
Reform Act of 1965 led to the arrival of thirty million new non-European
immigrants. In our classrooms we often remain ignorant about the traditions of
our students, which include Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Pentecostal Christianity,
Jehovah’s Witness, Latter-day Saints, and others. How should teachers
approach these new issues of religious diversity? When are accommodations
preferable to assimilation? How can education
improve our ability to solve shared problems across religious and political
lines? Must distant geopolitical conflicts be re-enacted on local school
campuses? In what ways can academics from multiple disciplines help K-12
educators to model civil discourse? We seek paper proposals on: civility and
religious tolerance; civil society and the public sphere; the First Amendment;
religion and ethnicity; recent demographic changes; local case studies; and the
role of History education and Literature education. Please submit a CV and
proposal (maximum of 500 words) to Dr. Andrew Fiala <afiala@csufresno.edu> and
Dr. Vincent Biondo <vbiondo@csufresno.edu> before July 15, 2011. We are able
to provide a limited amount of financial support for travel, so scholars,
teachers, students, and community members who would like to participate should
include such requests with their application.
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Dr. Vincent F. Biondo
Department of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Pre-Law
and Middle East Studies Program
California State University, Fresno
2380 E Keats Ave M/S MB105
Fresno, CA 93740-8024
Phone: 559-278-6644
Homepage: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~vbiondo/
Religion and Daily Life Project: http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=53274
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