A slide-illustrated lecture, titled “Learning about Islam and Reaching Across Faith Divides: Americans Respond to 9/11,” will be given by the Rev. Dr. Alison Stokes, founding director of the Women’s Interfaith Institute in Seneca Falls, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12 in the BTC Auditorium.
Rev. Dr. Stokes’ presentation will focus on the TV programs and documentaries, popular films, books and interfaith organizations and centers that seek to better prepare citizens to live in a multi-religious world. This program, which is free and open to the public, is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities’ Speakers in the Humanities program.
For the past 18 years, Rev. Dr. Stokes has worked on various college and university campuses, where she has overseen religious and spiritual life with special attention to relations between different faith groups. Having earned degrees from Harvard and Yale, she is a scholar of American Religious History and, after Sept. 11, 2001, was commissioned to write a study on peace in the three Abrahamic religions for use by laypeople.
In conjunction with this lecture, faculty, staff and students are invited to use the Building Bridges: Muslim Journeys Bookshelf collection that was awarded to the Dwight Marvin Library by the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this year. The collection consists of 25 books, three videos, and a scholarly, online resource which promote the understanding of Muslim people and Islam.
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:39:57 +0000 by d.renfrew