Curriculum vitae bruce Bennett Lawrence December 2006 Personal
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CURRICULUM VITAE Bruce Bennett Lawrence December 2006 Personal: Born: August 14, 1941 in Newton, N.J. Telephone: (919) 660-3506 E-mail: bruce.bbl@gmail.com Education: 1958-62 Princeton University, A.B. (magna cum laude) 1964-67 Episcopal Divinity School, M. Div. 1967-72 Yale University, Ph.D. (History of Religions: Islam & Hinduism) Major Research Interests: Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology Professional Positions: 1971-73 Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Duke University Tenured in April (after declining tenure offer from Columbia University) 1973-79 Associate Professor 1976-78 Chair, Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia 1979- Professor 1982-83 Acting Director, Graduate Program in Religion 1987-88 Acting Chair, Department of Religion 1990-91 Acting Chair, Department of Religion 1992-97 Director, Comparative Area Studies Program 1993-97 Co-Director (with John Richards, History), Rockefeller Foundation Program, "South Asian Islam & the Greater Muslim World" 1996-02 Chair, Department of Religion 1998-01 Director, Wiegand Distinguished Speakers Program on “Pivotal Ideas of Global Civilizations”
Inaugural Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion Inaugural Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center 2006- Interim Director, Carolina South Asian Center Fellowships, Awards & Guest Lectureships: 1967-71 Kent Fellowship 1974-76 American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowship at Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, U.P., India): Institutional Sufism 1981-82 National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Fund: Sufi Literature from pre-Mughal India 1982 Aziz Ahmad Memorial Lecture "Islam in India/Islam in the World - Does the Paradigm Fit?" University of Toronto 1983 Paine Lecture in Religion "Islam in the Modern World: A View from the Asian Periphery," University of Missouri-Columbia 1986-87 American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowship (declined): Mughal Sufism - Continuities and Discontinuities 1989 Dartmouth Institute of the Humanities; Senior Faculty Fellowship (Spring term) "Fundamentalisms Compared" 1990-91 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Topic: "Violence and Post-Colonial Islam" 1991-93 Pew Charitable Trusts Grant Topic:"Forum on Global Islam" 1993 Lindesmith Lecture in Asian Studies, "Between Arabia and Asia: The Future of Pakistani Women," Carleton College 1993 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant (with Bruce Kapferer, University College, London) Topic: "Theorizing Violence: Old Plots, New Problems" 1993-94 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar to 10 College/University sites 1994 Getlin Lecture in Religious Studies, "Where are the Islamic Fundamentalists in Bosnia?" Trinity College, Hartford 1994 Chautauqua Institution: Principal Organizer and Initial Public Lecturer for Thematic Program "In the Name of God: Religious Fanaticism at Home and Abroad" 1995 16th annual University Lecture in Religion at Arizona State University. Topic: "20th Century Global Religion(s): Parachristian Sightings from an Interdisciplinary Asianist" 1995 Plenary speaker at special topics session of International Association for History of Religions in Mexico City. Topic: “The Comparative Study of Global Fundamentalism” 1995 Fulbright research scholar/lecturer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia under special program in Islamic Studies. 1995 Goteburg Book Fair Conference on Religion and Freedom of Speech. Invited lecture:“The Paradox of the New Religious Right in America” Respondent: Salman Rushdie. 1996 Plenary Speaker at the First Iranian International Conference on the Teaching of Persian Language and Culture. Topic: “The Benefits and Limits of Persian Culture in the Formation of Islamic Civilization” 1996 Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard: Lecture on "Global Religion(s): Hope or Hoax of the 20th Century?" 1996 Goodspeed Lecture at Denison University: "Go, God, Go: the Use and Abuse of Religion in the 20th Century" 1996 Harriett Eliot Lecture in the Social Sciences at UNC-G: “Global Fundamentalism(s) Revisited” 1997 International Conference on Asia and North African Studies (ICANAS) in Budapest. Plenary paper on “The Dilemma and Persistence of Institutional Sufism” 1998 Conference at Tunis 1 on Post-Colonial Identities. Major paper on “Civil Society in Tunisia and Turkey” 1998 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminar on Islam and World Systems. Public presentation on “A View of Kingship and World Systems from pre-modern South Asia and South-east Asia” 1998 Visiting Professor, The University of Chicago Divinity School, Fall Quarter, Course: “New Faiths/Old Fears” 1999 American Lectures on the History of Religions. Bi-annual Lectures(5) on a topic of choice to 7 major universities in North America. Topic of choice: New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims And Other Asian
from Columbia University Press in 2002; see below) 1999 Invited Co-instructor of master class on “Good Government and Just Order: Traditional Elements in Contemporary Islamic Political Discourse” at Leiden University, the Netherlands 1999 Heyns Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University 1999 Emile Bustani Annual Lecturer at MIT 1999 Major Speaker on “Multiculturalism in Classical Islamic Civilization” at Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia) later printed as an essay in FPRI Newsletter No.9/1999 1999 Visitor to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the auspices of United States Information Agency (USIA); 3 major talks (2 in Arabic) 2000 UNESCO Chair of Philosophy Lecturer at University of Tunis in Tunis in late March: “Civil Society in the USA and Tunisia” International Association for the History of Religions Conference in Durban, South Africa in August; delivered two major papers, one on “Religion in Cyberspace”, the other on “Religious Tolerance and Islam”
Guest on Odyssey Channel program for the Real Bottom Line, filmed in NYC, then aired nationwide. Topic: “Is God in Cyberspace?” 2001 Two week conference on Muslim Personal Law in Dakar, Senegal 2001 Gave over 110 interviews, talks, and classes since 11 September 20 2002 Holstein Family Lecture at University of California - Riverside 2002 Further two week conference on Muslim Personal Law in Capetown, South Africa 2002 Major Colloquium on 11 September Retrospect at Williams College “The Longer View of the Axis of Evil” 2002 Lead off Keynoter in Year Long Program at Hillsdale College on “How to Think about Islam” 2002 Santagata Family Fall 2002 Lectureship at Bowdoin College: “Islam Past Glories, Present Challenges, Future Hopes” 2002 Wayne State University, Inaugural Lecture for Religious Studies Dpt.: “Religious Toleration & Civic Tolerance - The Case of Islam” 2002 Iowa State University, Lead off Speaker in Year Long Program on “Religion and Conflict: The Role of Fundamentalism(s)”
(Ehsan Yarshater, Columbia University, General Editor) 1986- Application reviewer for National Endowment of the Humanities Projects in several categories 1990- Outside evaluator for the annual fellowship competition at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars & the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park 1991-98 Editorial Board, HF Guggenheim Review 1994-99 Editorial Board, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2002- Co-editor, with Carl Ernst of UNC-CH, of a new monograph series from UNC-CH Press “Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks” 2002- International Advisory Board for the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies Research: A. Principal Foreign Languages Used: Arabic, Persian, Urdu & French Shahrastani on the Indian Religions, (Foreword by Franz Rosenthal), The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1976. (Religion and Society Series, vol. IV: Jacques Waardenburg, General Editor). 297 pp. Notes from a Distant Flute: The Extant Literature of pre-Mughal Indian Sufism, London & Tehran: The Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1978. 123 pp. The Rose and the Rock: Mystical and Rational Elements in the Intellectual History of South Asian Islam. Edited papers from May 1975 Quail Roost Symposium. Durham, NC: South Asian Monograph Series, Duke University, #15, 1979. 200 pp. Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology. Edited papers from the 1983 conference held at Duke University. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. 137 pp. Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989. London: I.B. Tauris, 1990. Paperback reprint from Columbus: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. 306 pp. *Winner of the prize for excellence in religious studies [1990, historical] awarded by the American Academy of Religion. See Religious Studies Review 19/4, October 1993:287-297. Morals for the Heart (Conversations with Shaykh Nizam ad-din Awliya, d. 1325 AD), by Amir Hasan Sijzi. Translation with Translator's Introduction, Annotation and Bibliography. General Introduction by K.A.Nizami. Classics of Western Spirituality Series. NY: Paulist Press, 1992. 312 pp. Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 237 pp. Paperback edition: 2000. Special Millennium Edition from Oxford University Press, Karachi: 2000. Arabic translation to appear in Spring 2003 from Obeikan Publishers of Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Thrice nominated for the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Religions Online. Indianapolis: Macmillan USA, 1999. 418 pp. The first popular book on cyber-spirituality. Written at publisher’s invitation in response to a web page done for an undergraduate course: “God Online”. Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, co-edited with David Gilmartin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 354 pp. Essays from the Rockefeller Institute on South Asian Islam and the Greater Muslim World, convened at Duke in April 1995.
co-authored with Carl Ernst. New York: Palgrave Press, 2002. 241 pages.* nominated for 2003 Coomaraswamy Prize as most original book on South Asian culture. New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims & Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 197 pages. Finalist for AAR Book Prize in Analytical Category for 2003. Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden. The first comprehensive collection of interviews, pronouncements, and legal directives made by the Saudi fugitive/terrorist/global jihadist, with a fresh translation into English (done by James Howarth), headnotes and an introduction. London & New York: Verso, November 2005
by GroveAtlantic in two separate editions, American and British, under the logo TEN BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. UK edition: July 2006, American edition, February 2007 The Chain of Violence: An Anthology. A critical appraisal of current, mostly European theorists of violence, with special attention to the crises in global politics that remain unresolved in the post-Cold War era. 420 pages in length, co-authored with Aisha Karim (Xavier College, Chicago) and due to be published by Duke University Press in Fall 2007. . Directory: bbl bbl -> The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification bbl -> Main objectives of the course are bbl -> Essay Writing I. (for correspondence course) Instructor: Ildikó Limpár bbl -> 3rd Year Classes Collected by Mr. Rouabhia Ridha Unit One: Exploring the Past bbl -> Bbl 3211: new literatures in english poems & short stories week 8 14 bbl -> Semester 1,2011/2012 bbl -> History of Britain (bblan 12500 and 02500) cv (Only Exam) Download 67.09 Kb. Share with your friends:
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