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2008-09 Religious Studies Back

Babadjanov, Bakhtiyar
Senior Researcher, Department of Islamic Studies, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Research: Western Culture in the Ideology of Twentieth Century Religious Reformers in Central Asia: Between Alienation and Adaptation
Indiana University--Bloomington, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Bloomington, IN, c/o Dr. Devin DeWeese
September 2008 - July 2009

Beinorius, Audrius
Professor, Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Research: Astrology and Divination in the Traditional Indian Society: Postcolonial Religious Perspective
Brown University, Department of Religious Studies, Providence, RI, c/o Dr. Henry Rosemont, Jr.
September 2008 - March 2009

Dong, Jiangyang
Associate Professor, Department of Christianity, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Research: The Relationship Between the Christian Church and Government in the United States and its Potential Meanings Toward China
University of Chicago, Divinity School, Committee on Constructive Studies in Religion, Chicago, IL, c/o Dr. Franklin I. Gamwell
October 2008 - August 2009

Furlan, Nadja
Research Associate, Science and Research Centre of Koper, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
Research: Feminist Theology and the Model of American Multiculturalism and Multi-Religious Dialogue as a Social Force in United Europe
University of California--Berkeley, Institute of Slavic, East European and Euroasian Studies, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Jeffrey Pennington
September 2008 - February 2009

Hamar, Imre
Associate Professor and Head, Department of East Asian Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Lecturing: Hungarian Travelers, Explorers, Missionaries and Art Collectors in East Asia; Huayan Buddhism: Chinese Understanding of Buddhist Philosophy
University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies, Charlottesville, VA, c/o Dr. Paul Groner
September 2008 - June 2009

Kovacs, Abraham
Associate Professor, Department of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Debrecen, Hungary
Research: The Influence of American Presbyterianism From Princeton on Hungarian Calvinism in the 20th Century
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, c/o Dr. Iain R. Torrance
July 2008 - September 2008

Leitane, Iveta
Associate Professor, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Research: The Jewish Neo-Kantianism in the United States: Philosophy Intertwined With Exegesis
Princeton University, Department of Religion, Princeton, NJ, c/o Dr. Leora Batnitzky
February 2009 - January 2010

Malu Nyimi, Modeste
Professor, Faculty of Theology, Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Research: Life as Gift and Task: Social Transforming Dimensions of African and African-American Religions
Emory University, Department of Religion, Atlanta, GA, c/o Dr. Gary Laderman
August 2008 - June 2009

Ravitsky, Aviram
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Research: Jewish Philosophical-Rabbinical Literature in 14th Century Provence
Harvard University, Center for Jewish Studies, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Shaye J.D. Cohen
September 2008 - August 2009

Sisler, Vit
Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Information Science and Librarianship, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Research: The Internet and Construction of Global Islamic Knowledge
Northwestern University, Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Evanston, IL, c/o Prof. Brian T. Edwards
December 2008 - August 2009

Walser, Angelika
Research Assistant, Department of Moral Theology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Research: Questioning the Autonomy of Women in Areas of Bioethical Conflict as Investigation Into Moral Theology
Boston College, Department of Theology, Chestnut Hill, MA, c/o Prof. Lisa Cahill
April 2009 - July 2009

Yarosh, Oleg
Head, Oriental Philosophy Research Division, Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
Research: "Unity of Being" and "Unity of Contemplation" After Ahmad Sirhindi
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, c/o Ms. Monique Principi
March 2009 - August 2009
(Fulbright/Kennan Institute Research Scholarship)