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For release March 2, 2011
LCC debuts Visiting Scholars in Islam program with Carl Ernst lecture March 8
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Carl W. Ernst |
EUGENE, OR - A lecture by national scholar and author Carl W. Ernst will kick off a new Visiting Scholars In Islam Program offered by Lane Community College.
The lecture will be held Tuesday, March 8, from 5:30-7 p.m., at the Center for Meeting and Learning, Building 19, Room 104, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene. It is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required.
Carl W. Ernst is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. Ernst is a specialist on Islam in West and South Asia, and author of more than eight scholarly books, including the prizewinning work "Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World" (UNC Press, 2003, translated into six other languages; and he is co-editor of a recent collection of essays titled "Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism" (USC Press, 2010).
His lecture is titled, "Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary Era." This will provide an overall introduction to the subject of Islam using an historical approach that will also address certain key contemporary issues, including the historic presence of Muslims in Europe and America, and the significance of anti-Muslim prejudice today. Other topics will include basic features of Islamic law and ethics (shari`a), theologies, and relations with other religious traditions. The lecture will be followed by a moderated discussion.
The lecture series is free and open to the entire community. The series is the outcome of months of collaborative work by Lane religious and peace studies faculty and administrators in partnership with the University of Oregon.
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Media contact: Joan Aschim, PIO, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
