Conference on Tolerance Among the World's Religions

Recipient: Neusner, Jacob (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 USA) in affiliation with Bard College

Goal: A conference examining the extent to which there are intellectual resources within each of the world's major religions supporting tolerance for adherents of other religions. (12 months)

Description: The study conference at Bard sets forth how theological attitudes of toleration yield forbearance. Case-studies ask: what are the religious resources of tolerance that a given religious tradition possesses? And what are the countervailing ideas? In the answers we discern the possibilities of conciliation between and among religions. This forms part of an international conference program planned for the USA, Italy (University of Bologna for Europe) and Egypt (American University of Cairo for North Africa and the Middle East), on how world-religions nurture in the faithful the attitude of toleration for those outside their own religious communities

Grant: 181477 / RZ-50530-06,   Category: Religion,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2006

Reading Narratives in Four Religious Traditions

Recipient: Vilardi, Teresa (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 USA) in affiliation with Bard College

Goal: A year-long, six-seminar workshop for eighteen school teachers in the mid-Hudson region of New York on father/son narratives in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

Grant: 177214 / EZ-50130-05,   Category: Religion,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2005

Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Case Study

Recipient: Vilardi, Teresa (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 USA) in affiliation with Bard College

Goal: A collaborative study project enabling fifteen teachers of literature, history, and global studies in three high schools in the state of New York to take part in nine seminars on the evolution of human rights doctrines and on specific cases studies in India and Africa.

Grant: 165779 / ED-50185-03,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2003

Argued From the Outside: New Forms For New Ideas

Recipient: Vilardi, Teresa (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 USA) in affiliation with Bard College

Goal: To support a humanities focus project on new forms of argumentation in ten selected texts for 15 secondary school teachers from New York's Dutchess County.

Grant: 143593 / ES-22792-95,   Category: Literature,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1995

The Analysis of Religous Systems: The Case of Ancient Judaism

Recipient: Neusner, Jacob (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 USA) in affiliation with Brown University (Providence, RI 02912 USA)

Grant: 151110 / FS-21759-88,   Category: History of Religion,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1988