Faith and Globalisation Initiative
The Faith and Globalisation Initiative launched in Yale University in September 2008 is an attempt by Tony Blair and his Tony Blair Faith Foundation to build a "global conversation" between an "elite group" of universities. The first result of the initiative was a semester long course on faith and globalisation at Yale. The initiative has been extended more widely and now includes in its list of lead universities: McGill University, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Fourah Bay College, University of Western Australia, Durham University, Yale University. Three universities, Wheaton College, University of Winchester and St Mary's University College, are associates developing and teaching "their own version of a faith and globalisation course".[1]
The initial topics being examined include:[2]
- Significance and Ambivalence of Faiths
- Stakes in Faith and Globalization
- "State of Faiths" in the World Today
- Secularization, Religious Resurgence, and Multiple Modernities
- Role of Faiths in the Processes of Globalization
- Faith and the Dynamics of Economic Development
- Persons of Faith Who are Publicly Engaged
- Faith and Violence
- Faith and Reconciliation
- Faith and Economic Activity
- Faith and Human Rights
- Public Role of Faith in Liberal Democracy
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.fgi-tbff.org/universities Tony Blair Faith Foundation: Universities (Accessed 10 March 2012)
- ^ http://faithandglobalization.yale.edu/ Faith and Globalization at Yale
