Peter Casarella has been since 2013 an Associate
Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he
currently serves as Interim Director of Latin American North
American Church Concerns and Area Coordinator for the Ph.D. program
in World Religions World Church. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from
the department of Religious Studies at Yale University. In
2005-2006 he served as president of the Academy of Catholic
Hispanic Theologians in the U.S. (ACHTUS). After teaching at the
University of Dallas and The Catholic University of America, he was
appointed in 2007 as a Professor in Department of Catholic Studies
at DePaul University in Chicago. In 2008 he was named the founding
Director of DePaul’s Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural
Theology. He was elected in 2009 as the fourth President of the
American Cusanus Society. In the academic year 2014-2015 he was
named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology and also received a
Sabbatical Leave Fellowship from the Louisville Institute for a
research project entitled: “God of the People: A Latino/a
Theology.”
Mun’im Sirry earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies
from the University of Chicago Divinity School (2012). His academic
interests include political theology, modern Islamic thought,
Qur’anic studies, interreligious relations, and Southeast Asian
religions and cultures. Sirry's most recent book, Scriptural
Polemics: The Qur’an and Other Religions (Oxford University Press,
2014) examines difficult passages in the Qur’an that have usually
been viewed as obstacles to peaceful co-existence among different
religious communities. Currently, along with the Contending
Modernities team, Sirry is developing a Contending Modernities
working group on Indonesia focusing on authority, community and
identity. The working group will explore and analyze the complex
relationships between the various contending authorities,
communities and identities that have shaped and been shaped by
religious life at both the societal and state levels. The
Indonesian working group will be comprised of leading scholars in
various fields exploring the conditions for the possibility of
pluralist co-existence among diverse ethnic and religious
communities in Indonesia through a wide range of engagement with
religious and secular forces. In Sirry’s publications have appeared
in peer-reviewed journals including Arabica,al-Bayan, Bulletin of
the School of Oriental and African Studies, Interpretation, Islam
and Christian-Muslim Relations, Journal of Semitic Studies, Journal
of Southeast Asian Studies, The Muslim World, Studia Islamica, and
Die Welt des Islams.
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