Reflections on the 2011 ISSRPL

A Roman Catholic priest from Uganda, a Jewish professor of sociology and religion from the US, a Muslim woman from Palestine with a degree in Peace Studies, a Protestant social activist from Indonesia, and an atheist from Russia walk into an Orthodox Christian monastery in Bulgaria built by a Muslim man whose ill wife was healed by Christian holy water and which houses a miraculous icon that grants fertility to the Muslim and Christian women who come to pray before it. No, this is not the beginning of a cruel joke. This actually happened just a few days ago...more

Review at the Boston University website about the summer school

http://www.bu.edu/cura/henry-luce-foundation-funding/issrpl-2/

A CONTENTIOUS WORLD

http://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/spring11/seligman/index.shtml

Photos from 2011 School

The Balkan Summer School on Religion and Public Life provides a laboratory for the practical pedagogy of tolerance and living with difference in a global society. Its goals are to produce new practices and understandings for living together in a world populated by people with very different political ideas, moral beliefs and communal loyalties. Its focus is on religion, as our religious identities are our most exclusive and our religious communities are those to which we devote our greatest loyalties. In our diverse but increasingly interconnected world, we need to find ways to live together. The school takes these very real, critical and defining differences, especially communal and religious differences between people, as the starting point of a publically shared life. 


BSSRPL works as a consortium together with the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (www.issrpl.org) whose program will be held in Indonesia from 3-17^th July 2012 http://www.issrpl.org/programs/application.html