Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement

Edited by Courtney Bender and Pamela E. Klassen

The first book in IRCPL’s publication series with Columbia University Press After Pluralism offers a critique on how religious difference is often framed as a problem only pluralism can solve. Its essays treat pluralism as concept historically and ideologically produced and explore it as a term that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism’s ideals in diverse sites—Broadway plays, Polish Holocaust memorials, Egyptian dream interpretations, German jails, and legal theories—and demonstrate its shaping of political and social interaction in surprising and powerful ways. To be published on October 15, 2010.

FACULTY SEMINARS 2010-11: Call for Proposals

IRCPL is currently soliciting proposals for faculty seminars to be held in Fall 2010 or Spring 2011. These semester-long seminars bring together Columbia faculty and colleagues of peer institutions for investigations of interdisciplinary topics. Past seminars were on such topics as Networks, Toleration, Blood and Ghosts (to view past seminars and their participants, please visit: http://ircpl.org/seminars).

If you would like to organize a faculty seminar in the Fall 2010 or Spring 2011, please submit a proposal with a 1-2 page description of subject and a list of likely participants. It should also indicate anticipated results of the seminar, such as particular courses, a collection of essays, public lectures or symposia. Each seminar may have up to two organizers, who will each receive a stipend of $2000. Each seminar will also be provided with $2000 for expenses such as books, catering and materials.

Proposals due to Emily Brennan at eb422@columbia.edu