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Religion and Global Solidarity: Review of Toward a Global Civilization? The Contribution of Religions
Get PDFReview of Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There is a Global War Against Their Faith
Get PDFA Christian Case for Racial Reparations
Get PDFNational healing for the persistent wounds of racism, America’s original sin, can be advanced through a national apology, reparations and forgiveness. The frequent practice of apologies and reparations around the world in the past generation provide precedent for such measures. Christianity’s teaching of reconciliation and accompanying notions of sin, repentance, forgiveness, and atonement provide a strong moral basis for these measures and resonate with the rationales through which the United States’s greatest champions of civil rights and equality have fought against racism and slavery. Because racism and slavery were supported with the sanction of the state, in the name of the collective body, measures of repair may now be performed by the state, in the name of the collective body. Questions of who pays, who receives, and what form reparations take are important ones and can be answered adequately. Through collective apology, reparations, and forgiveness, the United States would enact and renew its national covenant, acting in the tradition of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr
Panel: Religion & the Environment
No full textModerator: Dr. Jon Armajani, Department of Peace Studies
Abbot John Klassen, St. John\u27s Monastery: Benedictinism and the Environment.
Abbot John Klassen, OSB is in his 23rd year as leader of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville. He leads a community of 100 Benedictine monks who sponsor and work at Saint John’s University, Saint John’s Preparatory School, the Liturgical Press as well as other ministries in central Minnesota. He has long been interested in questions related to the non-violent resolution of conflict and was associated with the founding of the Peace Studies program at CSB and SJU.
Dr. Jon Armajani, Department of Peace Studies: Islam and the Environment.
Jon Armajani, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Peace Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u27s University in Minnesota. His scholarship focuses primarily on the relationships between Islam and politics in the Middle East and North Africa, and secondarily in South Asia. He is the author of Dynamic Islam: Liberal Muslim Perspectives in a Transnational Age (2004), Modern Islamist Movements: History, Religion, and Politics (2012), and Shia Islam and Politics: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon (2020). He co-edited with James E. Lindsay Historical Dimensions of Islam: Pre-Modern and Modern Periods: Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys (2009). He also co-edited with Wilbert van Saane Religion, Education, and Peace: Proceedings of an Online International Conference Held in March 2021 (2022). He is a coordinating editor of the Journal of Social Encounters, and has published scholarly articles and book chapters in his fields of expertise. He is currently working on a book entitled The Armenian Diaspora and Modern Political Systems: Religious and Ethnic Minorities in their Historical Contexts (2022). He teaches courses related to Christianity, Islam, and Middle East Politics
Panel: Environmental Justice
No full textModerator: Dr. Theodor Gordon, CSB+SJU Director, Initiative for Native Nation Relation
Dr. Derek Larson, Department of Environmental Studies: Global Environmental Justice.
Derek Larson is a Professor of Environmental Studies and History at CSB/SJU and teaches courses on American and world environmental history, natural resource management, sustainability, and other topics. His academic background includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, religion, and environmental studies. He has been at CSB|SJU since 1998 and has served as founding chair of the Environmental Studies Department since 2001.
Angel Stevens. The Giniw Collective and The Niibi Center for the Rights of Nature. Environmental Justice in the US.
Co-sponsored by the CSB+SJU Department of Peace Studies, the CSB+SJU Department of Environmental Studies, and the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning.
*CSB+SJU is on the original homeland of the Dakhóta and Anishinaabe peoples. We honor and respect the Indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed from and who are still connected to this territory. https://usdac.us/nativelan
The History of Race and Racism at CSB and SJU
No full textDr. Brittany Merritt Nash leads a presentation to educate and raise awareness about touchpoints in this history and how students organized resistance throughout the years
