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  • Book Preview: Indonesian Pluralities

    Episode 41
    Published: 2021-06-23
    Length: 61:40
    Hosts: Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby

    Co-directors of the Contending Moderntities initiative, R. Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, and Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, talk with editors and authors of the new book, "Indonesian Pluralities: Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy," published by Notre Dame Press. Panelists include editors Zainal Abidin Bagir and Robert W. Hefner, and contributors Erica M. Larson and Alimatul Qibtiyah.

     

    Topics: Democracy, Indonesia, Islam, Pluralities, Religion

  • Global Interreligious Peacebuilding

    Episode 27
    Published: 2020-10-30
    Length: 44:11
    Hosts: Atalia Omer

    Professor Atalia Omer moderates a conversation highlighting the successes and challenges of interreligious peacebuilding around the world. Guests include Nell Bolton, a 2003 graduate of the Kroc Institute’s Master’s program who now works as the Senior Technical Advisor for Justice and Peacebuilding with Catholic Relief Services; Rashied Omar, a 2001 Master’s alumni and Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding here at Notre Dame; and Hippolyt Pul, Executive Director at the Institute of Peace and Development in Ghana.

    This episode was recorded at the November 2019 Building Sustainable Peace conference.

    Topics: Alumni, Catholic, Islam, Peacebuilding, Religion

  • The Ethics Debate: Is Organ Donation Permitted in Islam?

    Episode 18
    Published: 2020-04-24
    Length: 40:18
    Hosts: Ehsan Masood

    Patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood debate organ donation in light of Islamic tradition. A podcast from the Science and the Human Person working group.

    Topics: Ethics, Gene editing, Islam