2006 LSI SUPPLEMENTAL GRANT AWARDS

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Bursa Local Society Initiative
University of Uludag
Bursa, Turkey
Chairperson:  Bülent Senay, Ph.D.

This winner is the first LSI local society in its nation. Its mission is to promote the constructive engagement of science and religion based on critical, open, and balanced interdisciplinary principles. The members have organized weekly science & religion discussion meetings for faculty and both graduate and undergraduate students—the “future visionaries” of this endeavor. They are currently working on developing a joint program with the departments of environmental studies, engineering, and religious studies that will offer seminars under the title of “World Religions and Ecology.” Future plans call for developing transdisciplinary courses, one on astronomy and civilization and the other on mathematics and metaphysics, for starters. They are also working on book translations and developing a website to support their efforts. The society is networking both nationally and internationally, and is reaching out to the public schools—a very rare endeavor in their particular circumstances. Their hope is to promote and help institutionalize transdisciplinary approaches at their host institution and throughout the national educational system.
Award Accepted by : Bülent Şenay (UNABLE TO ATTEND)
Bülent Senay was born in 1966 in Bursa, Turkey. He is currently associate professor of Comparative Religion. He graduated from Uludag University in Islamic and Religious Studies. Following his M.A. studies at the same University, as a post-graduate student, he studied at Lancaster University in the UK. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1999 for a religious studies thesis on Jewish Christianity – Identity, Hybridity and Tradition. He also taught Muslim Ethics and Philosophy at the University College of St. Martin, in Lancaster, UK. Presently he teaches various subjects at the B.A. and postgraduate levels. He has published two books and several articles in Turkish and English. He has delivered various papers and lectures in the UK, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, USA, and Italy. This list includes a paper on a comparative analysis of Buddhist and Islamic Perception of Nafs and Conflict Resolution at the 19th World Congress of the International Association of the History of Religion in Tokyo, Japan. He is on the editorial board of several academic journals in Turkey. His affiliations include the Turkish Association of the History of Religion (TAHR). He is currently a participant in 3 international projects (European) on religion and multiculturalism. He is the chair of the Metanexus LSI in Bursa, Turkey.
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