UNM Religious Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences will feature the talk "Islam and Christianity Facing Modernity" by Dr. Jose Casanova, Monday, March 7, from 5 – 6:30 p.m. at the Student Union Building, Lobo rooms A & B.
The talk will focus on challenges confronting Islam and Christianity in terms of the forces of democracy, capitalism, human rights and consumerism in the modern world.
Casanova, professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, and author of “Public Religions in the Modern World (1994),” is a leading analyst of contemporary religion in the public arena.
This event is co-sponsored by the Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratory and UNM’s Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society, Institute for Medieval Studies, International Studies Institute and the departments of history, sociology, political science and philosophy.
The talk is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Nancy Rice, 277-4009.
Contact: Dena Wood, (505) 277-5813