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Professor Stephen Scharper on “Troubled Times for the Catholic Church”

From Steve Paikin’s The Agenda, with a blog post, “Troubled Times for the Catholic Church,” at http://bit.ly/ck0UJF – The show asks, “An historic institution, a venerable leader, and a legacy of lies? Does the Catholic Church have a credibility crisis?” With guests: John Dalla Costa, founder of the Centre for Ethical Orientation – a consultancy working with public and private sector organizations around the world to foster ethical excellence in the global economy; Raymond J. de Souza, a Roman Catholic priest who serves as chaplain for Newman House at Queen’s University. He is a columnist with the National Post, and is a frequent contributor to other publications such as The National Catholic Register and First Things; Stephen Scharper, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and also a member of the Centre for the Environment and the Centre for the Study of Religion, as well as a columnist for the Toronto Star; John Bentley Mays, a columnist for The Catholic Register and The Globe and Mail; and Moira McQueen, a professor of theology at the University of St. Michaels College at the University of Toronto and the director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute.

Professor Stephen Scharper on “Water – A Canadian Forum on Religion and Ecology”

“Stephen Scharper, Assistant Professor of Religion, Anthropology and Environment, University of Toronto, examines the ethical implications of the privatisation of water and the response of religious organizations to this.”

Professor Mark Kingwell on “Democracy’s Gift: Politics, anxiety, and hope in the 21st century”

“Can our democracy deliver on the promises of policy driven in the interest of all? Can the reality of democratic institutions live up to the enduring and enticing fictions present in democratic theory? Join philosopher and political theorist Mark Kingwell for a critical discussion about the future of democracy. Kingwell explores the inherent tension between the giving of democracy and the gift that it delivers — contrasting the attempted exportation of democracy via public policy with the open-ended possibility that is its real value.”

Malcolm Gladwell and Professor Mark Kingwell on QTV

Professor Mark Kingwell on Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and The City – Part 1 of 5

Professor Mohammed Fadel on Cooperation of Church & State

This lecture was given at the June 2006 (Centre for Cultural Renewal’s Cooperation of Church & State Conference ), part of a session entitled “Separation and Cooperation: Perspectives from the USA, Canada & Europe.”

Professor Mohammed Fadel on Islamic Law and Development

“February 16, 2010: KARAMAH presents a lecture by Professor Mohammed Fadel, Esq. on Islamic law and development in the Gulf states, and how current changes in the region are impacting international legal norms, policy prescriptions, and business practices on a global scale.”

Professor David Novak

This event occurred on January 21, 2010 at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University (http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu).

William James once quipped that “in this age of toleration,” no one “will ever try actively to interfere with our religious faith, provided we enjoy it quietly with our friends and do not make a public nuisance of it.” Unfortunately — at least for the privatizers and the secularists — religion is a very public matter for a simple reason: most religions make definitive moral claims that implicate the common good. So says Rabbi David Novak in his new book about religious liberty, why it is endangered, and why it should be protected. His is not, however, a book about attacks on religious freedom in Saudi Arabia or China. It is about liberal democracies such as the United States and Canada, where religious actors and institutions are increasingly vulnerable because of their public dissent to emerging laws and norms on issues like same-sex marriage. Novak, a Professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, discussed the perils and the remedies – including the need to ground democratic religious liberty once again (as did America’s founders) in divine law.

To discuss this important new book, the Berkley Center featured a vigorous discussion between Novak, William Galston of the Brookings Institution, and George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The event was moderated by the Berkley Center’s Thomas Farr.

Professor Enrico G. Raffaelli talks about Zoroastrianism

Courtesy of CTS “Faith Journal.” Enrico Raffaelli starts at 1:16.

Professor Shafique Virani