Title: Globalization and Religions
Lecturer: Miroslav Volf (Professor of Yale University and Founder and Director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture)
Chairperson: LIU Wenjin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University)
Date: 9 am, September 17th, 2018 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Globalization and religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Prof. Volf will show us that how these twinned forces -- religions and globalization have historically interacted and what their relationship ought to be.Volf thinks that religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivationand contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that can be about more than bread alone.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Miroslav Volf, Professor of Yale University and Founder and Director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His research interests include Christianity, religious dialogue, religion and globalization. He co-taught a course at Yale with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on globalization.He has published more than 20 books and published nearly 100 academic articles. He was awarded the 2002 Grawemeyer Award of the University of Louisville. Monographs: Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
