On November 26, 2008, CRCS and ICRS will hold Wednesday Forum. The forum will discuss about ?Anthropological Approach in Religious Studies?. The speaker will be Ronald A. Lukens-Bull, Ph.D. The forum will be held on:
Date :Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Time : 1 pm ? 3 pm (free lunch)
Venue : Room 306, UGM Graduate School Jln. Teknika Utara, Pogung, Yogyakarta
Ronald A. Lukens-Bull is a lecturer at Department of Sociology-Anthropology, University of North Florida. He received his PH.D in Social-Cultural Anthropology from Arizona State University (1997). His areas of Specialization are Indonesia; Islamic Education and Leadership; Religion and Culture; Southeast Asian Religious Experience; Modernity and Globalization; Comparative Muslim Cultures. Currently he becomes Fulbright Senior Scholar in Islamic Studies at State Islamic Institute of North Sumatra, Medan. Some of his book publications are A Peaceful Jihad: Negotiating Identity and Modernity in Muslim Java. Jihad ala Pesantren di Mata Antropolog Amerika (Jihad ala Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools in the Eyes of an American Anthropologist). And Sacred Places and Modern Landscapes: Sacred Geography and Social-Religious Transformations in South and Southeast Asia (Editor).