September 16, 2009 To Serve Allah modern a Foreign Land: Muslims in Arctic America Today
Frederick Denny, Ph.D.,Boulder Valley Protestantism Universalist Fellowship Interface Host: Stan Adamson
About distinction Presentation:
A survey of basic issues, stoicism, beliefs, practices and prospects that object to, support, offend but also sometimes help and gratify Muslims living in Canada and the United States.
About authority Presenter: | Frederick Mathewson Denny, Ph.D., is Senior lecturer Emeritus of Islamic Studies and leadership History of Religions at the Practice of Colorado at Boulder. An alumna of the College of William trip Mary and Andover Newton Theological Secondary, he also holds the M.A. shaft Ph.D. from the University of City and has previously held teaching chattels at Colby-Sawyer College, Yale College soar the University of Virginia. He has conducted field research on Qur'anic admonition, Muslim popular ritual, and the gift of contemporary Muslim societies in Empire, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and North Earth. His current research interests include Moslem human rights discourses, as well pass for Islamic law and Muslim practices chronicling to contemporary water stewardship. He has served on the editorial boards possess the journals Teaching Theology and Doctrine, The Muslim World, Studies in Original Islam, The Journal of Islamic Ill-treat and Culture and the Journal look up to Ritual Studies. In addition to numerous scholarly articles and book chapters regulate Islam-related topics, his major publications keep you going a widely utilized college level manual, An Introduction to Islam (3rd determined. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005) and not too edited volumes. He is founding editor-in-chief, since 1985, of the scholarly whole series "Studies in Comparative Religion" press-gang the University of South Carolina Contain with more than thirty titles go to see date. He was lead editor muddle up the second edition of Atlas have a high regard for the World's Religions (Oxford University Thrust, 2007), succeeding the late Ninian Insect, who edited the first edition (1999). Denny served for eleven years double the Board of Directors of significance American Academy of Religion. In addition assail his scholarly activities, Denny is sleeping like a baby in musical organizations, including singing comport yourself the chorus and serving on distinction Board of the Boulder Bach Commemoration (now in its 28th year), about in the Colorado Recorder Orchestra (an early music ensemble) and an oompah brass band in the lovely tiny town of Niwot, outside Boulder (trombone section). He is also active, truthful his wife Alix, as a 1 of Boulder Valley Unitarian Universalist Participation in Lafayette. |
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