From New York/Mass.-
The Henry Luce Foundation of New York awarded the Episcopal Divinity School a grant of $350,000 over a four-year period to fund a dedicated program of interfaith studies.
The grant will be used to enlarge faculty training, expand curriculum, and develop online continuing education in other faith traditions.
The Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, President and Dean of Episcopal Divinity School, said, “We are extremely grateful to the Henry Luce Foundation for this generous grant. It is a major vote of confidence in our mission to produce graduates who are competent in diverse religious traditions and who will be capable of exercising their ministries in multifaith communities.”
“Our priorities for the first year,” said Dean Ragsdale, “are to hire a scholar to teach the history of Islam, and to design and coordinate a program for faculty that integrates field visits to the many interfaith resources in the Boston area. We are particularly interested in hiring a female Islamic scholar, because the public voices about Islam in the current media environment tend to be men.”
More here-
http://www.prweb.com/releases/episcopal-islam/anglican-interfaith/prweb8352106.htm
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