“”Radical Hospitality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Dialogue””
Society of Universal Dialogue hosts the First Annual Dialogue Seminar entitled "Radical Hospitality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Dialogue" at Buttrick Hall 101 Vanderbilt University on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010.
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Keynote Speakers
Dr. Rabbi Rami Shapiro (Middle Tennessee State University) ~
Dr. Alan A. Godlas (University of Georgia) ~
Dr. David Rowe (Middle Tennessee State University) ~
Dr. Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University)
PROGRAM [ 11 :00 am - 12 : 30 pm ]- Presentations by the speakers [ 12 :30 pm - 13 : 00 pm] - Light Buffet [ 13 :00 pm - 13 : 45 pm ] – Audience participation: questions, comments, and responses.
PARKING Meters on Scarritt Pl, 19th Ave, 24th Ave, etc. at no charge
Dr. Rabbi Rami Shapiro Dr.Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award winning author, poet, essayist, and educator whose poems have been anthologized in over a dozen volumes, and whose prayers are used in prayer books around the world. Rami received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and holds both Ph.d. and D.D. degrees. A congregational rabbi for 20 years, Rabbi Rami is currently Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. In addition to writing books, Rami writes a regular column for Spirituality and Health magazine called “Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler” and he has a blog. His most recent book is Recovery–the Sacred Art (Skylight Paths). He can be reached via his website.
Dr. Alan A. Godlas Dr. Alan A. Godlas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia where he teaches Islamic Studies, Arabic, and a survey on the world's religions. Dr. Godlas is on the steering committee for the UGA Center for Asian Studies, a member of the Linguistics faculty, the Medieval Studies Program, and the African Studies Program. He received his M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1991) in Near Eastern Studies (specializing in Islamic Studies) from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Godlas studied Persian literature at the University of Tehran from 1974-1976, advanced Arabic as a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo in 1983-84, and advanced Turkish as a fellow at Bosporus University in 1984. His areas of research include Qur'anic commentary (tafsir), hadith, Islamic mysticism (also known as Sufism) and consciousness transformation, and the relationship between Islam, modernism, and postmodernism.
Dr. David Rowe Dr. David Rowe is a Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University where he teaches courses in American Religious History of the 19th and 20th centuries. His principal work has been on the Millerite (Adventist) movement in the 1840s, the Primitive Baptists in the Antebellum South, and the Stewardship Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1960-1997. He received his BA degree from Ithica College in 1969, MA from the University of Virginia in 1972, and his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1974. His publications include two books: Thunder and Trumpets--a book about people who predicted the Second Coming of Christ in the 1840s, and God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World . He has published articles in Church History, Dialogue, Foundations, Teaching Religion and Theology, Baptist History and Heritage. He says that his vocation is “simply stated--teacher. I live that out here at MTSU but also in the Episcopal Church, specifically at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Murfreesboro where I serve as an unpaid Assistant to our principal minister (Rector).”
Dr. Richard McGregor Dr. Richard McGregor is the Moderator for the panel. Professor McGregor is assistant professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University. His area of expertise is Islam, particularly the medieval intellectual and mystical traditions. He teaches courses on Qur'an and Interpretation, Sufism, and Methodology in the Study of Religion. Before coming to Vanderbilt University in 2003, professor McGregor spent two years in Cairo, Egypt, at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale working on Arabic manuscripts. His recently published book, Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt: the Wafa Sufi Order and the Legacy of Ibn Arabi (SUNY, 2004) looks at the construction and theory of "sainthood" in Islam. His next major project is a study of aesthetics in the Islamic mystical tradition.
