RECEPTION & BOOK LAUNCH, JILL B. CARROLL,

"A DIALOGUE of CIVILIZATION"

DATE, TIME : Thursday, 31 May, 6:30 pm

   On Thursday May 31, 2007, Jill B. Carroll, a Lecturer in Humanities at Rice University, was a guest of Turkish Cultural Center for a book signing of her new book, “A Dialogue of Civilizations.” Dr. Carroll’s new book carefully compares philosophers who have discussed issues such as freedom, education, and inherent human dignity. The central analysis of the book is of Turkish scholar M. Fethullah Gulen, laying out his progressive Islamic ideals and humanistic discourse. The book signing attracted a large crowd who were more than willing to discuss the themes Dr. Carroll focuses on in her book, especially the need for dialogue in today’s society.

A Dialogue of Civilizations

A Dialogue of Civilizations: Lecture and Book signing with Jill Carroll
Scholar and author Jill Carroll explores the essential basis for a meaningful conversation among faiths

Author: B. Jill Carroll

Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish intellectual, scholar, and activist whose influence over a new Islamic intellectual, social, and spiritual revival is revealed in this insightful book. Readers will gain a fuller understanding of where Gülen stands on issues of inherent human value and dignity, freedom of thought, education and taking responsibility for creating society and the world. In addition, readers will also see how different perspectives across time, geography, and worldview can still find points on which to engage in dialogue and find a deep resonance.

Pub. Date: April 2007
Pages: 142

DESCRIPTION

What are the essential principles that bind all human beings together, no matter what our religious beliefs? The Jung Center welcomes Dr. Jill Carroll for a talk drawn from her new book A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gulen's Islamic Ideals and Humanistic Discourse. Intended as a forum for a discussion among faiths, this book explores the progressive Islamic ideals of Turkish intellectual and philosopher Fethullah Gulen. His theories, alongside those of well-known philosophers – Kant, Confucius, Plato, Sartre, and John Stuart Mill – provide an open conversation across time and culture on such subjects as freedom, education, and inherent human dignity.
A book signing will follow the talk.

PRESENTERS

B. Jill Carroll, PhD, is a Lecturer in Humanities and the Assistant Director of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religion and Tolerance at Rice University. She is also a writer and corporate trainer. She writes a column for The Chronicle of Higher Education called “The Adjunct Track” and is the author of The Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God.