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Address<br />
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON RELIGION AND<br />
PUBLIC LIFE<br />
Phone Not available.<br />
Fax<br />
Web http://www.issrpl.org<br />
E-Mail info@issrpl.org<br />
ISSRPL, 610 Centre Street, Suite A, Newton, MA<br />
02458-2326, U.S.A.<br />
Category Research and Knowledge<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
<strong>The</strong> goal of this summer school is to transform both the theoretical models and concrete practices through which religious<br />
orientations and secular models of politics and society engage one another. Its guiding principle is that in order to build relations of<br />
tolerance and understanding between groups and to shape a civil society, the perceived barrier between secular, modern and more<br />
traditional religious values must be broken down. Political orientations and social practices must be developed that will draw on both<br />
religious traditions and the insights of secular modernity in new and creative ways.<br />
Founding year 2003<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
<strong>The</strong> International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL) combines pluralistic perspectives on religious thought with<br />
social scientific research on tolerance, civil society and an open, dialogic, approach to pedagogic practice.<br />
<strong>The</strong> International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL) is an annual international, inter-religious summer school of<br />
approximately two weeks that meets in a different country every year. It provides a framework where students, civic leaders and<br />
prominent academic from different countries can explore the issues of religion and the public sphere with an aim to develop new<br />
strategies of tolerance and pluralism while maintaining a commitment to tradition and religious identity. <strong>The</strong> program is centered<br />
around three academic courses together with the processes of group building and the construction of working relationships across<br />
religious and ethnic identities. <strong>The</strong> didactic goals of the school are thus not solely cognitive but social as well.<br />
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<br />
Mahmut�ehaji�, R. e. (2002). Religion and Public Life. Sarajevo, International Forum Bosnia.<br />
Seligman, A. B. (2004). Modest Claims: Essays and Dialogues on Tolerance and<br />
Tradition. Paris, Notre Dame University Press.<br />
(2002). Sourcebook: Coexistence Curriculum for Religious Jewish, Christian and Muslim Communities. Jerusalem, Yesodot.<br />
Application deadline: mid May.<br />
REMARKS