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INSTITUTE ON CULTURE, RELIGION AND WORLD AFFAIRS,<br />
BOSTON UNIVERSITY<br />
Address<br />
<strong>Institute</strong> on Culture, Religion and World Affairs,<br />
10 Lenox Street, Brookline, MA 02446 USA<br />
Phone 617-353-9050<br />
Fax 617-353-6408<br />
Web www.bu.edu/cura<br />
E-Mail isec@bu.edu<br />
Category Research and Knowledge<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
CURA is a center for research, publication and education on one of the most strategic questions in the contemporary world: How<br />
does culture (in the sense of beliefs, values and lifestyles) affect economic and political developments world-wide? Since, in most of<br />
the world, religion is at the core of culture, CURA has paid special attention to the role of religion in world affairs. While CURA’s<br />
agenda is of obvious academic interest, it touches increasingly on practical policy concerns. Thus CURA has sought to communicate<br />
its findings to government, the business community and the media.<br />
Founding year 1985.<br />
Examples of activities include:<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
� Civil Democratic Islam: Prospects, Comparisons, and Policies for a Changing Muslim World<br />
� Orthodox Christianity in American Public Life: <strong>The</strong> Challenges and Opportunities of Religious Pluralism in the 21st Century<br />
� Orthodox Christianity and the Construction of Civil Society and Democracy in Russia<br />
� Engaged Religions and the Public Good in Chinese Societies<br />
Since its inception CURA has conducted research projects on every continent except Australia. Some of these were pioneering and<br />
have become major points of research, such as those by David Martin (London School of Economics) on the explosion of<br />
Protestantism in Latin America and by Gordon Redding (then at the University of Honkong) on the culture of Overseas Chinese<br />
entrepreneurs.<br />
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<br />
Berger, P. L. and S. P. Huntington (2002). Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity In the Contemporary World. Oxford, Oxford<br />
University Press.<br />
Glenn, C. (2000). <strong>The</strong> Ambiguous Embrace: Government and Faith-based Schools and Social Services. Princeton, Princeton University<br />
Press.<br />
Hefner, R. (2004). Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. Princeton, Princeton University Press.<br />
Lännström, A. (2003). Promise and Peril: <strong>The</strong> Paradox of Religion as Resource and Threat. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame<br />
Press.