scholarly journals Interfaith Directory

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-163
Author(s):  
Mumtaz Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Family ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Spiritual Unity

The cause of interfaith dialogue, understanding and what is sometimesdescribed as "the wider ecumenismn has gained considerable momentum inrecent years. While interfaith conflicts and sectarian tensions continue to hitthe headlines, efforts to build bridges and arrive at some degree of mutualunderstanding are also underway. Recent years have witnessed the emergenceof many groups, agencies and organizations around the globe that are workingin the field of interreligious dialogue and understanding. These groupingshave held numerous interfaith seminars, cqnferences and workshops and havecontributed significantly in opening up new channels of communication andwider avenues of concord among the hitherto contending religious communityleaders. One such organization is The Council for the World's Religions (CWR).a New York based organization which aims to bring believers of all faithsinto mutual friendship and collaboration in the service of God and humanity.The Interfaith Directory sponsored by the CWR is one important step towarddisseminating information about other organizations and agencies workingfor interreligious harmony and concord.The Directory lists names, addresses and activities of about seven hundredinterfaith organizations throughout the world. These organizations have beenlisted in five different categories: 1) organizations with multifaith membership;2) organizations relating to two or three religions; 3) organizations basedon one religion. but with outreach to other religions; 4) universalist movementsfor spiritual unity; and 5) academic institutions which are also centers ofinterfaith dialogue and encounter. Some organizations receive multiple entriesbecause of the varied nature of their activities and programs. The Directoryalso includes two very useful indeces, one alphabetical and the othergeographical. As has been noted by the editor, these organizations may varyconsiderably in size, resources and effectiveness but all of them share thecommon goal of interreligious harmony. Francis Clark has contributed a verythoughtful introduction to the volume in which he discusses present trendsin the world-wide interfaith movement. He rightly points out that the interfaithmovement "is a deeper religious expression of the new sense of oneness ofthe human family and the new awareness of our coounon responsibilities,dangers and destiny in our one shared habitat." However, he is not oblivious ...

André Martinet (1908–1999)

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-293
Author(s):  
Johannes Klare
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Research Director

André Martinet holds an important position in the history of linguistics in the twentieth century. For more than six decades he decisively influenced the development of linguistics in France and in the world. He is one of the spokespersons for French linguistic structuralism, the structuralisme fonctionnel. The article focuses on a description and critical appreciation of the interlinguistic part of Martinet’s work. The issue of auxiliary languages and hence interlinguistics had interested Martinet greatly from his youth and provoked him to examine the matter actively. From 1946 onwards he worked in New York as a professor at Columbia University and a research director of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). From 1934 he was in contact with the Danish linguist and interlinguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943). Martinet, who went back to Paris in 1955 to work as a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), increasingly developed into an expert in planned languages; for his whole life, he was committed to the world-wide use of a foreign language that can be learned equally easily by members of all ethnic groups; Esperanto, functioning since 1887, seemed a good option to him.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Thomas Albert Howard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Ethical Significance

This chapter begins with discussion of the three organizations drawn from numerous comparable ones established in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the interfaith center of New York, the Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID). The chapter seeks to understand where interreligious dialogue came from and where is it headed. It also evaluates its broader historical, social, and ethical significance. The chapter hazards answers to these questions through an inquiry into several major turning points in the history of interreligious dialogue, for even as many today extol, practice, theorize, and/or theologize about interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its genesis and past. The chapter takes the premodern world as a starting point, where it examines several harbingers of interreligious dialogue. Canvassing the premodern world for harbingers helps us to see that while contemporary interfaith dialogue is in some respects a novelty, it is nonetheless not altogether discontinuous with the past. Ultimately, the chapter recognizes the distinction between interfaith dialogue and interfaith social action.

Peace Studies and (Counter)Terrorism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bartolucci
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Cross Pollination ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Scholarly attention on both Peace Studies (PS) and contemporary security issues, in particular “terrorism” and “counterterrorism,” is notable and has been growing in recent decades. Several academic institutions now offer undergraduate and postgraduate modules on “Terrorism Studies” (TS) and PS all over the world, and in recent years there has been growing interest in both areas. Still, the two fields have long remained stubbornly distant and only a few scholars have investigated the interaction between Peace and Terrorism Studies. This article, building on the openings produced by seminal contributions on the possible intersection between the two areas of research, seeks to review such contributions and point to some commonalities and issues affecting both fields to finally underline fruitful areas of cross-pollination. To achieve its aim, the article is structured in the following way: it begins with an investigation of characteristics common to both fields as well as common issues affecting them, then reports the results of a preliminary review of the most relevant contributions investigating the possibilities of crossroads between Terrorism Studies and Peace Studies. The contributions succinctly reviewed in this article are full of important considerations (theoretically and empirically informed) about the feasibility and desirability of intersections between TS and PS and are particularly welcomed for opening up new avenues for research. However, given the initial stage of this enterprise, they should be better regarded as excellent launch pads for stimulating further research and for encouraging more dialogue between disciplines.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Anastassia V. Obydenkova ◽  
Alexander Libman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Future Research ◽  
International Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Wide Experience ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Theoretical Results

The final chapter systematizes the empirical lessons derived from the detailed analyses of the various chapters. It generalizes the theoretical results of the empirical analyses and reconsiders these issues within the theories of regionalism and autocracies. It sums up the findings for post-Soviet Eurasia, but also makes generalizations beyond the specific regions, presenting implications for the world-wide experience of the failure or success of democratization and opening up new lines of investigation at an international level. The conclusion discusses implications for the further development of a theory of regionalism, autocracies, and for policy making. It also describes an agenda for future research, which can be derived from our investigation.

Archaeology on the World Wide Web: a user's field-guide

Antiquity ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (274) ◽  
pp. 1027-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Champion
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Field Guide ◽  
Know How ◽  
The World

Using the World Wide Web is not unlike visiting an unfamiliar place to look at the archaeology. You want to know if there is anything interesting to see, so you start in the library, looking for information; you read books and articles from journals; perhaps you contact colleagues who can tell you about the place; you want to know how to find the sites and to get to them; and once you are there, you want to visit the museums as well as the monuments, and to locate people who are working there, whether they are from academic institutions, government archaeological bodies or local societies. You will want to check that access arrangements have not changed since the last published information; you also want to ensure that as far as possible the information you have is accurate, so that you do not waste time looking at sites which are not relevant to your interests.

scholarly journals Orthodoxy and Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Boldişor
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Within the historical approach on interreligious dialogue, it should not be overlooked that the representatives of Orthodox Churches were actively involved in promoting and supporting interreligious dialogue by participating in the meetings that have focused on relations with people of other religions. In this context, the Orthodox Churches come with a whole tradition that stretches to the early centuries, the relations with Jews and Muslims being an integral part of the history of Orthodox Christianity. The Orthodox Christians, with their bi-millennium tradition, where there are different interpretations of other religions, bring to the modern world an approach that takes into account personal relationship with people of other religions. Analyzing how the representatives of the Orthodoxy and the Islam in Romania are trying to find solutions to the many problems facing the world today, we can say that lately in Romania, the interreligious, intercultural and interethnic dialogue increased both quantitatively and qualitatively. Among the followers of the two religions that live in these territories for centuries, the relations have varied over the time, reaching today to a situation in which the believers live in peace, protected by the laws of the Romanian state which guarantee the freedom of thought and religious expression. Moreover, lately it has been attempted to find solutions to the global crises which are, not infrequently, religious.

Continuous Practice Improvement

2011 ◽  
pp. 58-86
Author(s):  
Catherine Schifter
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
World Wide ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Apple Computer ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Opening Up

Since the early 1980s education had been challenged to improve student outcomes. It was during these years of debate on what would help schools help children achieve more that microcomputers were making inroads into schools. Apple Computer started the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) project, described briefly in Chapter 3. Microcomputer technology was developing and changing dramatically each year, with new opportunities available to support classroom teaching. Then the World Wide Web came into the mix in 1993, opening up new resources and opportunities for teachers and students. All of a sudden they were not limited to the resources available (or not) in the classrooms or school libraries. The world was opening up to schools in ways never imagined before. However, schools and teachers were still accountable for student learning. How could corporations step up to the challenge of supporting the nations’ future workforce?

scholarly journals A collaborative model for web archiving ephemeral art resources at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumitra Duncan ◽  
Karl-Rainer Blumenthal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Web Archiving ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Resources ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
Ephemeral Art ◽  
The Web

The vast expanse and volatility of art ephemera based on the World Wide Web pose significant threats to the completeness of the art historical record as sustained by art libraries. Towards its mission to enhance the resources available for current and future research through collaboration among leading museum libraries, the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) collects, preserves, and provides access to art ephemera born in digital formats native to the web. It leverages its member institutions’ traditional collecting strengths and combined resources to establish an initial and model a permanently sustainable web archiving programme. This article introduces NYARC’s web archiving practices as they manifest at the principal stages in a typical web archive’s lifecycle, describes how each directly benefits from collaboration among its member libraries and external programme partners, and identifies opportunities for further art libraries and their consortia to participate in this important effort to serve and preserve at-risk art historical resources.

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