Attend Friendship Among Religions and in World Politics: How Religions Can Help Expand Apology

and Forgiveness on February 22nd, 2018, 3:00pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

Sponsored by the CCC. Robbins Peace Lecture.

If you enjoyed his presentation today, check out some books available on display in front of the Circulation Desk!

Cover Art Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shiʻi Islam by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati
Call Number: 297.8209 M214e 2016 (New Items, Second Floor)
Nearly four decades after a revolution, experiencing one of the longest wars in contemporary history, facing political and ideological threats by regional radicals such as ISIS and the Taliban, and having succeeded in negotiations with six world powers over her nuclear program, Iran appears as an experienced Muslim country seeking to build bridges with its Sunni neighbours as well as with the West. "Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shi'i Islam explores the wide spectrum of theoretical approaches and practical attitudes concerning the justifications, causes and conduct of war in Iranian-Shi'i culture.
 
Cover Art Political Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jonathan Fine
Call Number: 303.6 F495p 2015 (New Items, Second Floor)
Religious political violence is by no means a new phenomenon, yet there are critical differences between the various historical instances of such violence and its more current permutations. Since the mid-1970s, religious fundamentalist movements have been seeking to influence world order by participating in local political systems. For example, Islamic fundamentalism is at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Christian fundamental right wing has seen a resurgence in Europe, and Jewish fundamentalism is behind the actions of Meir Kahane's Kach movement and the settler movement. The shift in recent years from secular to religious political violence necessitates a reevaluation of contemporary political violence and of the concept of religious violence. This text analyzes the evolution of religious political violence, in both historical and contemporary perspectives.
 
Cover Art Shi'ite Islam by Muhammad H. Al-Tabataba'i; Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Edited and Translated by)
Call Number: 297.82 T112sxn (3rd Floor)
Despite a growing interest in the last hundred years in both orientalism and comparative religions, and the fact that there are over fifty million Shi'a Muslims, until now there has been no thorough and objective study of that part of Islam called Shi'ism for Western scholars. The present work provides a clear account of the origin, history, and doctrines of an important sector of the Muslim religious community. It is written by a distinguished leader of that community, who, in addition to possessing a thorough knowledge of its traditional history and literature, presents its rational-philosophic, traditional-legal, and gnostic-mystical elements with warmth and sympathy. The result is a well-integrated general picture which succeeds in giving the reader a clear and comprehensive picture of how the Shi'ite Muslim views his religion.