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C Brodeur is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair
on Islam, Pluralism, and Globalization at the Faculty
of Theology and the Science of Religions at the University
of Montreal, Canada. In 2004-2005, he was Rockefeller
Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre
Dame, focusing on interreligious dialogue and conflict
resolution. From 1998 to 2004, he was Associate Professor
of Religious Studies at Connecticut College. During the
last eighteen months, his responsibilities have also included
the position of Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life.
His main academic interests include: contemporary Islam;
pluralism and globalization; identity construction and
power dynamics; perceptions of ‘self’ and
the ‘other’; and the relationship between
the study of religion and applied religion, especially
the role of interreligious dialogue in promoting democracy,
pluralism, and peace-building.
Dr Brodeur completed an M.A. and a Ph.D. in the Study
of Religion from Harvard University. He graduated with
a B.A. in Religious Studies and an M.A. from the Institute
of Islamic Studies at McGill University, which included
two years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one
year at the Shari`ah College of the University of Jordan
as a Rotary International Scholar. He also studied for
two years at Lester B. Pearson College in Victoria, BC,
Canada.
Dr Brodeur co-edited two books: with Dr. Eboo Patel, Building
the Interfaith Youth Movement: From Dialogue to Action
(Rowman & Littlefied, 2006) and with Sondra Myers,
The Pluralist Paradigm: Democracy and Religion in the
21st Century (University of Scranton Press, 2006).
He published many articles including: “The Contemporary
Global Challenges of Pluralism in Light of Competing American
Islamic Identities”; “From Postmodernism to
‘Glocalism’: Towards an Integrated Theoretical
Understanding of Contemporary Arab Muslim Constructions
of Religious Others”; “The Changing Nature
of Islamic Studies and American Religious History”;
“Theory and Method in the Study of Women in Islam”;
and “Introduction to the Guidelines for an Inter-faith
Celebration.”
He is completing a book manuscript entitled “Contemporary
Arab Muslims Perceptions of Religious Others.” He
has delivered papers at various academic conferences and
lectured on all continents.
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