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Summer Institute for Educators

Tuition for the program is $180. Space is limited. Apply online by May 12, 2018 at https://pier.macmillan.yale.edu For more information, email at PIER@yale.edu
ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series. Jihad and Its Enemies: New Perspectives from West Africa - Lamin Sanneh and Alexander Thurston

Join us for a dialog between Lamin Sanneh (Yale University and Yale Divinity School), author of Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Alexander Thurston (Georgetown University), author of Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist...
“Jerusalem My Happy Home”: Pluralism, Democratic Governance and Christian Pilgrimage as Religious Equalization in Contemporary Africa

Exploring pluralism, democratic governance and Christian pilgrimage as religious equalization in contemporary Africa. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu PhD (Birmingham, UK, 2000) is Baëta-Grau Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal Theology and Vice President of the Trinity...
Nigeria: The Frontier of Religion and Society in Africa

Drawing on his extensive experience of public service in politics and society in his country, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah (Ph.D., University of London) will examine the major role religion continues to play in Nigeria’s practice of democratic politics and offer an assessment of current...