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"Where are the Moderate Muslims?": Popular Rice Scholar to Speak on the Dialogue of Civilizations Print E-mail
Lecture & Book Signing Event
Date:    April 24, 2007
Time:    12:00 noon
Location    Humanities Building Courtyard, Rice University
Speaker:    Dr. Jill Carroll
Associate Director, The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University, Houston

Host(s):    The Institute of Interfaith Dialog, Houston, TX,
Boniuk Center and Department of Religious Studies
The School of Humanities,
Rice University
Details:    The author will sign her book before and after the lecture

In A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gulen's Islamic Ideals and Humanistic Discourse, Jill Carroll places the ideas of Fethullah Gülen, an influential Turkish intellectual and scholar, into the context of the larger humanities. Readers will gain a fuller understanding of Gülen's thought on issues of inherent human value and dignity, freedom of thought, education and taking responsibility for creating society and the world. Dr. Carroll establishes a textual dialogue between the works of Gülen and the texts of Confucius, Plato, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Jean Paul Sartre. Readers will see how perspectives from different times, locations, and worldviews can still yield points on which to engage in dialogue and find deep resonance.

Dr. Jill Carroll is an adjunct associate professor in religious studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Associate Director of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance. She is the author of The Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God.
 
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