Teks-teks religius dan Poskolonialisme adalah topik utama Wednesday Forum minggu ini. Pembicara dalam forum ini adalah Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber. Kami mengundang Anda sekalian untuk bergabung dan mendiskusikan lebih lanjut tentang topik tersebut. Adapun informasi lainnya mengenai Wednesday Forum minggu ini dapat dibaca seperti di bawah ini.
Hari/tanggal: Rabu, 8 April 2009
Waktu: 12.30 14.30 WIB (makan siang gratis)
Tempat: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung
Pembicara: Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber
Abstrak:
Theorist Edward Said has defined criticism as lifeenhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination andabuse, its social goals are non-coercive knowledge produced in the interest ofhuman freedom (1991-29). Saidsown critical perspective has been generative of a set of theories known aspostcolonialism. What happens whenwe use some of the insights of postcolonial criticism to read and interpret religioustexts? What new critical insights might be introduced into our understanding ofparticular religious texts, religious practice and relationship betweendifferent religions?
In this presentation we will read a religious text fromthe Christian scriptures (Mark 7: 25ff.) through a postcolonial critical lensasking how such a lens might differ from traditional or liberation perspectivesand how such a lens might open new arenas of inter-religious dialogue.
About the speaker:
Elaine Kay Swartzentruber comes to CRCS from the United States.She received her Ph.D in Religious Studies with a certificate in Women’sStudies from Emory University in Atlanta Georgia (1999), her MA from ChicagoTheological Seminary (1991) and BA from the University of Colorado (1988).Before coming to Indonesia in 2007, she taught at Emory University and at WakeForest University in North Carolina. Her research and writing interests are ingender, subjectivity and religious community, interreligious dialogue, peacestudies, postcolonialism and feminism in religious studies.
Registrasi:
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Contact person:
Elis (ICRS): elis@ugm.ac.id; Lina(CRCS): lina_pary@yahoo.com; Mustaghfiroh Rahayu(CRCS): mth.rahayu@gmail.com
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