Events2020 Annual MeetingYour AAR staff continues to work toward holding the Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 21-24, 2020. We are aware of the uncertainty and contradictory projections related to the COVID-19 pandemic and with health and safety as a priority, we will continue monitoring the guidance of governments and health experts as we plan and make decisions. Should any changes need to be made related to the 2020 Annual Meeting, we will promptly notify you. 2020 Regional MeetingsOpen Registration: All remaining regional meetings for 2020 have been canceled |
AAR Receives $200,000 Grant from the Luce Foundation for Continuing Summer Seminars in Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative TheologyAugust 17, 2011 Contact: Stephanie Gray The AAR is pleased to announce that it has received a $200,000 renewal grant from The Henry Luce Foundation to hold a Cohort Three of the Luce/AAR Summer Seminars in Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology. “This renewal grant from Luce is a vote of confidence in the work of the teaching team and the first two cohorts of Luce/AAR Summer Seminar Fellows who have already been a part of this process,” said John Thatamanil, Project Director of the Summer Seminars and Chair of the AAR Theological Education Steering Committee, which developed these Summer Seminars. “Thanks to the support of the Luce Foundation, we can continue the work of training another cohort of Fellows to incorporate theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology into their teaching and scholarship.” Members of the teaching team are convinced that these fields will be substantially enriched by the entry of new voices, especially voices coming from a variety of religious traditions. Said Thatamanil, “It will be exciting to see what becomes of comparative theology and theologies of religious pluralism when these fields become robustly dialogical as persons from a variety of traditions enter a conversation that has to date been predominantly Christian.” The teaching team has from the inception of these Seminars included persons such as John Makransky and Anantanand Rambachan, who are pioneers in developing Buddhist and Hindu theologies of religious pluralism. Dates and application procedures for Cohort Three will be published shortly on the AAR website and in Religious Studies News. ### |