Religion Under Examination- Intensive Sessions
INTENSIVE SESSIONS
CENTER FOR INQUIRY INDIANA
350 Canal Walk, Suite A
Indianapolis, IN 46202
FULL DAY SESSIONS:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2010—IBN WARRAQ
SATURDAY, FEBUARY 20, 2010—BOB PRICE
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010—JOHN SHOOK
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
CONFERENCE FEES $60 PER SESSION, $150, ALL THREE
FRIENDS OF THE CENTER: $50 PER SESSION, $125, ALL THREE
STUDENTS: $25 PER SESSION, $60 ALL THREE
If you have a problem paying the fee, we will work with you on it.
Intensive Sessions
Most people are born into one religion and hardly question their childhood beliefs, but in this age of global communication, religious and nonreligious people can compare and criticize traditional views, with the help of religion scholars using modern techniques. CFI Indiana held a conference on September 11-13, 2009 featuring these same speakers. Several people expressed an interest in learning more from each of them. Therefore, we have scheduled these intensive sessions to give those who want more in depth knowledge on the subjects a chance to spend a day with each of these learned scholars.
SPEAKERS
Robert M. Price is Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies, Johnnie Coleman Theological Seminary, Founder and Editor, Fellow, The Jesus Seminar , Executive Board Member, The Jesus Project, The Bible Geek. His books include Beyond Born Again, The Reason-Driven Life, The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, and Inerrant the Wind.
John Shook is Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y., and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo , since 2006. He received his PhD in philosophy at Buffalo, and was a professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University from 2000 to 2006. He has authored and edited more than a dozen books, is a co-editor of three philosophy journals, and travels for lectures and debates across the United States and around the world.
Ibn Warraq (No Picture) , Islamic scholar and a leading figure in Koranic criticism, is a senior fellow at the Center for Inquiry- Transnational . He is the author of five important and distinguished books on Islam and Koranic criticism, including the classic Why I am Not a Muslim, 1995, The Origins of the Koran , 1998, What the Koran Really Says , 2002, and the forthcoming Which Koran? -all Prometheus Books. Warraq's op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal in America and The Guardian in London, and he has addressed distinguished governing bodies all over the world, including the United Nations in Geneva, and Members of the Dutch Parliament, at The Hague. Mr. Ibn Warraq completed in 2007, a critical study of the thought of Edward Said, Defending the West , which Paul Berman, author of Terror and Liberalism , described as "a glorious work of scholarship, and it is going to contribute mightily to modernizing the way we think about Western civilization and the rest of the world."
