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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination
DESCRIPTION:Arson and vandalism at houses of worship. Bullying at schools and harassment at the grocery store. Political scapegoating and institutionalized discrimination. Muslims in the United States and beyond have faced Islamophobia in a range of forms. This groundbreaking book argues that Christians though they are not the targets of Islamophobia should be at the forefront of efforts to end the prejudice and discrimination that Muslims face. Writing for Christians of all denominations\, Jordan Denari Duffner offers an introduction to Islamophobia\, discusses the unfortunate ways that Christians have contributed to it\, and offers practical steps for standing in solidarity with Muslims. Viewing Islamophobia as both social justice and a religious freedom issue\, Duffner makes the case that the Christian faith calls us to combat religious discrimination even when it is not directed toward our own faith community. She weaves together insights from Catholic social teaching\, examples from Protestant leaders\, and expertise from Muslim scholars and activists\, resulting in a compelling book that will be of interest to academic and lay audiences alike. \nSpeaker/Author \n \nJordan Denari Duffner is an author\, educator\, and scholar of Muslim-Christian relations. Her books are Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Finding Jesus among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a Better Catholic. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in theology and religious studies at Georgetown University and is an associate of the Bridge Initiative. \n  \nModerator  \nSusan Douglass received a Ph.D. in world history from George Mason University in 2016 and holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Her research field is education history and policy in teaching about the world and world religions. She works on instructional design\, and has published widely on American textbooks and curriculum standards policy\, and has authored teaching resources for Unity Productions Foundation films\, grant projects for the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the British Council\, and the National Center for History in the Schools and others. She is currently K-14 Education Outreach Coordinator at CCAS and has conducted teacher workshops for ACMCU since 2007. \nFull Event Video
URL:https://rumiforum.org/event/islamophobia-what-christians-should-know-and-do-about-anti-muslim-discrimination/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: No Power Over God's Bounty
DESCRIPTION:The Qur’an often addresses Jews and Christians as “People of Scripture” to indicate that they have received revelation from God. Yet\, while acknowledging the special relationship and knowledge that this revelation brings\, the Qur’an at the same time criticizes the People of Scripture for not remaining true to God’s guidance and claiming special power over God’s gifts. The mixture of acknowledgment and criticism is based on actual encounters with Jews and Christians at the time of the revelation of the Qur’an. This Christian commentary on the 31 texts in which the Qur’an discusses and addresses the People of Scripture includes the Muslim tradition of interpretation of these texts and adds Christian resonances in order to contribute to the future dialogue between Muslims and Christians on the common heritage and the differences between them. \nSpeaker: \nDr. Pim Valkenberg studied theology and religious studies in the Netherlands\, where he was involved in the dialogue between the three Abrahamic religions at the Radboud University of Nijmegen where he worked for twenty years until he came to the United States with his family to work at Loyola University Maryland and\, since 2011\, the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. His fields of specialization are comparative theology\, interreligious dialogue\, and Christian – Muslim relations. Among his publications are World Religions in Dialogue (2014\, 2017)\, Renewing Islam By Service: A Christian View of Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement (2015)\, and Nostra Aetate: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Catholic Church’s Dialogue with Jews and Muslims (2016). His latest book is published in 2021 by Peeters in Leuven: No Power over God’s Bounty: A Christian Commentary on the “People of Scripture” in the Qur’ān. \n  \nDiscussant:\nDr. Zeki Saritoprak is Professor and the Bediüzzaman Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies at John Carroll University. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from the University of Marmara in Turkey. Professor Saritoprak is the author of Islam’s Jesus (University Press of Florida\, 2014) and over thirty academic articles and encyclopedia entries on topics in Islam. He has served as guest editor for issues of the journals Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and the Muslim World. He is editor and co-translator of Fundamentals of Rumi’s Thought: A Mevlevi Sufi Perspective (in English; New Jersey: The Light\, 2004) and the editor of a critical edition of al-Sarakhsi’s Sifat Ashrat al-Sa’a (in Arabic; Cairo\, 1993). He is currently preparing a book on Islamic spirituality tentatively titled Islamic Spirituality: Theology and Practice for the Modern World. \nFull Event Video
URL:https://rumiforum.org/event/no-power-over-gods-bounty/
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