BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//https://faithvictoria.org.au///NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.15// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260427T200957UTC-496760vc4W@https://faithvictoria.org.au/ DTSTAMP:20260427T200957Z DESCRIPTION:Australian Intercultural Society invites you to:\nChristianity\ , Hinduism and Islam at the Crossroads\nDate: Monday 22 July 2019 \; & nbsp\;Time:12 pm \;to 1:30 pmLocation: Ground Floor\, \;441 Saint Kilda Road\, \;Melbourne\, VIC 3004\nChristianity\, Hinduism and Islam at the Crossroads: Believing Communities in the Age of Secularism\, Plura lism and Individualism.\nIt may seem that religions are competitors\, wary and suspicious of one another. But in fact religions all are facing the c hallenge of secularization\, the fact of a plurality whereby no religion c an any more be a sole arbiter of a society’s values\, and so too the wanin g of institutions\, as faith becomes more private and individualized in ma ny parts of the world. Though each tradition is different\, we have in com mon the challenge to survive and thrive in a secular\, pluralistic\, and i ndividualized world. How to be a Christian or Musllm or Hindu today? We do well to learn interreligiously\, talking with one another about our futur es\, the passing on of the faith\, the meaning of religious education\, an d ways of being more deeply religious without violence or fear. Professor Clooney\, a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus\, will refl ect on the American scene\, his teaching at Harvard University\, and his m any years of studying Hinduism\, as a start for our conversation.\nMore ab out the Speaker' \;\nFrancis X. Clooney\, S.J.\, joined the Harvard Di vinity School faculty in 2005. He is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Pro fessor of Comparative Theology. After earning his doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations (University of Chicago\, 1984)\, he taught at Boston College for 21 years before coming to Harvard.\nHis primary areas of Indological scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sa nskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India. He is also a leading figure gl obally in the developing field of comparative theology\, a discipline dist inguished by attentiveness to the dynamics of theological learning deepene d through the study of traditions other than one’s own. He has also writte n on the Jesuit missionary tradition\, particularly in India\, on the earl y Jesuit pan-Asian discourse on reincarnation\, and on the dynamics of dia logue and interreligious learning in the contemporary world.\nClooney is t he author of numerous articles and books\, including Thinking Ritually: Re trieving the Purva Mimamsa of Jaimini (Vienna\, 1990)\, Theology after Ved anta: An Experiment in Comparative Theology(State University of New York P ress\, 1993)\, Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Deshik a on Loving Surrender to God (Georgetown University Press\, 2008)\, The Tr uth\, the Way\, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras o f the Shrivaisnava Hindus (Peeters Publishing\, 2008)\, Comparative Theolo gy: Deep Learning across Religious Borders (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2010)\, and His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absen ce (Stanford University Press\, 2013). Recent books include the co-edited How to Do Comparative Theology (Fordham University Press\, 2017)\, The Fut ure of Hindu-Christian Studies: A Theological Inquiry (Routledge\, 2017)\, and Learning Interreligiously: In the Text\, in the World (Fortress\, 201 8).\nHe is currently completing Slow Learning in Fast Times: On Reading Si x Hindu and Christian Classics and How It Matters\, based on the 2017 Jame s W. Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia\, and writing shorter essays on the the Manual of Daily Worship (Nityam) by by the Hindu theolog ian Ramanuja\, and on Constantine Beschi\, S.J.\, a Jesuit missionary in S outh India in the eighteenth century.\nHe is a Roman Catholic priest and h as been a member of the Society of Jesus for 50 years. He serves regularly in a Catholic parish on weekends. From 2007 to 2016 blogged regularly in the “In All Things” section of America magazine online\, and his current b logsite\, The Inner Edge\, can be found here.\nIn July 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as a Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. From 2010 to 2017\, he was the Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions here at Harvar d.\nCost: Free \;To register\, please click here. \; https://faith victoria.org.au/upcoming-events/event/1586-christianity-hinduism-and-islam -australian-intercultural-society DTSTART:20190722T120000Z DTEND:20190722T133000Z LOCATION:Australian Intercultural Society\, Ground Floor\, Suite 2\, 441 St Kilda Rd\, Melbourne\, VIC 3004 (441 St Kilda Rd\, Melbourne VIC 3004\, A ustralia) SUMMARY:Christianity\, Hinduism and Islam: Australian Intercultural Society URL:https://faithvictoria.org.au/upcoming-events/event/1586-christianity-hi nduism-and-islam-australian-intercultural-society END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR