There will be an interesting topic in Wednesday Forum this week. CRCS research team for inter-religious dialogue will lead us to discuss about ideas and practices of inter-religious in Indonesia. Zainal Abidin Bagir and J. B. Banawiratma, as part of the team, will be speakers in this forum. We invite you to join this forum. Some information can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Time: 12.30 pm ? 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung
Speaker: CRCS Research Team (Presenters: Zainal Abidin Bagir and J. B. Banawiratma)

There will be an interesting topic in Wednesday Forum this week. CRCS research team for inter-religious dialogue will lead us to discuss about ideas and practices of inter-religious in Indonesia. Zainal Abidin Bagir and J. B. Banawiratma, as part of the team, will be speakers in this forum. We invite you to join this forum. Some information can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Time: 12.30 pm

Religious texts and post-colonialism is our main topic this week in Wednesday Forum. The speaker in this forum is Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber. We invite you to join this forum and discuss more about that topic. Other information about Wednesday Forum this week can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Time: 12.30 pm ? 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung
Speaker: Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber

Abstract:

Theorist Edward Said has defined criticism as ?life enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination and abuse, its social goals are non-coercive knowledge produced in the interest of human freedom? (1991-29). Said?s own critical perspective has been generative of a set of theories known as postcolonialism. What happens when we use some of the insights of postcolonial criticism to read and interpret religious texts? What new critical insights might be introduced into our understanding of particular religious texts, religious practice and relationship between different religions?

For the past two months of this semester, the students of CRCS were busy having two field trips. On February 12-13, they together with Prof. Dr. Irwan Abdullah and Dr. Mark Woodward conducted a mini-research project in Klaten. The research focused mainly to the Yaqowiyyu Celebrations in Jatinom, a small village in Klaten. The project was part of their class in Research Methodology of Religion and in Indigenous Religion & Society. The last field trip that they did is dialoging interfaith dialogue in Salatiga? as also part of another course.

Religious texts and post-colonialism is our main topic this week in Wednesday Forum. The speaker in this forum is Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber. We invite you to join this forum and discuss more about that topic. Other information about Wednesday Forum this week can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Time: 12.30 pm

In Wednesday Forum this week we will discuss about Sufism world related to gender issue in Islam? under a topic ?Women and Sufism: Considering Women?s Perspective of Truth?. Najiyah Martiam will be the speaker of this interesting topic- who was student at CRCS.

We invite you to join this forum. Some information can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Time: 12.30 pm ? 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung
Speaker: Najiyah Martiam, M. A.

Abstract: