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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Religion and the Internet Is Subject of Oct. 22 Presentation at Kent State<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The Ghost in the Machine: How the Internet Is Changing How We Do Religion” is the subject of the fall 2013 symposium hosted by Kent State University’s Center for the Study of Information and Religion in the School of Library and Information
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<p class="MsoNormal">The talk will take place on <b>Tuesday, Oct. 22</b>, at 7 p.m. in room 317 of the Kent Student Center. It is free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Symposium speaker Peter J. Haas, Ph.D., is Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies; Chair, Department of Religious Studies; and Director, Judaic Studies, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. His recent books include
<i>Human Rights and the World’s Major Religions: The Jewish Tradition</i> and <i>
Responsa: Literary History of a Rabbinic Genre.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Religions historically have tended to be very local and congregationally based, says Haas. Scholars of religion thus have been trained to look at local culture and context. But what does this importance of place mean for religion on the
Web? The Internet seems to make it possible for religious interaction to occur outside of any communal or shared religious space. What, then, do we learn about contemporary religion and its practice by observing its Internet manifestations?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Haas’s presentation is intended to begin a conversation about how we might rethink our definition of religion. To begin to answer this question, he will direct attention to the religious websites of three different religious communities:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Haas received his doctorate in Jewish Studies from Brown University in 1980. Prior to enrolling at Brown, he attended Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati where he was ordained as a Reform rabbi in 1974. After ordination, he served on active
duty as a U.S. Army chaplain for three years. He received his B.A. degree in Ancient Near East History in 1970 from the University of Michigan. <br>
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Haas joined the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2000, after serving on the faculty in Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University from 1980 to 1999. He has taught courses in Judaism, Jewish ethics, the Holocaust, and Western
religion. He has published several books and articles dealing with moral discourse and has lectured in the United States, Germany and Israel. His most recent work is on the relationship between science and moral discourse.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR) is a research initiative of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University. CSIR was founded in 2009 with the goal of facilitating research on the
various institutions and agents of religion and their effect on social knowledge through the use, dissemination and diffusion of information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University has the only American Library Association-accredited Master of Library and Information Science degree program in Ohio, offering courses in Kent, Columbus (State
Library of Ohio) and through a fully online option. SLIS also offers a Master of Science in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management and participates in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the College of Communication and Information. The school is recognized
by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation’s top 20 library and information science graduate programs, with a youth librarianship program that is ranked 10th. It is one of the largest library schools in the country, with more than 600 students enrolled.
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis">www.kent.edu/slis</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Flo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Flo Cunningham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kent State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">330-672-0003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:fcunning@kent.edu">fcunning@kent.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis">www.kent.edu/slis</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ksuslis">https://www.facebook.com/ksuslis</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/KentStateSLIS" title="Kent State SLIS">@KentStateSLIS</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Taylor Rollins [<a href="mailto:trollin4@kent.edu">mailto:trollin4@kent.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 04, 2013 6:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cunningham, Flo<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Library Beat for DKS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, my name is Taylor Rollins and I am currently the beat reporter over the library and SLIS at the Daily Kent Stater. I was hoping that I could meet with you at your earliest connivence. <br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Taylor M. Rollins</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Magazine Journalism</i> Major</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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