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The Center for Religious Inquiry announces its Spring semester which will include "A Little Language Goes A Long Way," one-day seminars in Hebrew (Saturday, February 24) and Arabic (Saturday, March 17).

[ClickPress, Fri Jan 05 2007] The Center for Religious Inquiry announces its Spring semester which will include "A Little Language Goes A Long Way," one-day seminars in Hebrew (Saturday, February 24) and Arabic (Saturday, March 17).

The classes begin at 10 a.m. and will end at 4 p.m. Lunch and coffee breaks are included in the course fee. The registration fee for each course is $60. Rabbi Leonard A. Schoolman will teach the Hebrew course and Hussein Rashid will teach the Arabic course.

St. Bartholomew’s Church is located on Park Avenue at 51st Street. For more information, call (212) 378-0222 or visit www.stbarts.org.

Highlights from CRI’s Spring 2007 Semester:

BACK TO THE BASICS
During the last several years, CRI has offered introductory courses in the major religions of the world. This semester we are offering all of our introductory courses. These courses are designed for those who want to learn about the religions of their neighbors – or for those who wish to refresh their knowledge of their own faith.
All courses are $50.

ISLAM: FOUR WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30 P.M., BEGINNING ON FEBRUARY 7.
INSTRUCTOR: HUSSEIN RASHID
Hussein Rassid is a graduate of Columbia University and is in the final throes of completing his dissertation in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature at Harvard University.

HINDUISM - FOUR THURSDAYS AT 6:30 P.M., BEGINNING ON FEBRUARY 22.
INSTRUCTOR: DR. RACHEL MCDERMOTT
Professor McDermott, who teaches at Barnard College and Columbia University, will take us on a journey through the world of Hinduism. She earned her doctorate at Harvard.

BUDDHISM - FOUR WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30 P.M., BEGINNING ON MARCH 7.
INSTRUCTOR: DEREK KOLLEENY
Derek Kolleeny, a returning teacher, received his degree in comparative religion, with a concentration in Buddhism, at Harvard. He has been a practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism for almost 30 years.

ROMAN CATHOLICISM – FOUR WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30 P.M., BEGINNING ON APRIL 11
INSTRUCTOR: FR. TERRANCE W. KLEIN
Fr. Klein, a former pastor and seminary spiritual director, is an associate professor of theology at Fordham University. His doctorate in fundamental theology is from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

THE AMERICAN POET AS SKEPTIC o FOUR MONDAYS AT 6:30 P.M.
Beginning on March 5, with a course fee of $50, Dr. Don Harrell will discuss how Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens were American poets who shared similar religious backgrounds. Neither, however, was able to sustain a faith free of doubt, disbelief, profound skepticism and comic irony. Don Harrell, a popular veteran CRI instructor and a member of St. Bart’s, earned his doctorate in English at Vanderbilt University.

THE HOLOCAUST IN LITERATURE AND FILM
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, AND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, AT 6:30 P.M.
Course fee is $50. Instructor Dr. Marc Lee Raphael.
Toni Morrison writes in Beloved, "You who was never there," and wonders how to represent the slave experience for white people and black people who were not there. How can we best represent the Holocaust for those of us who were not there? Elie Wiesel writes frequently that "there is no such thing as a literature of the Holocaust, nor can there be." Is he right? Is it impossible for literature to represent that experience for those who were not in Nazi-occupied Europe from 1939-1945? Marc L Raphael is chair of the Department of Religion at the College of William and Mary. He earned his doctorate at UCLA, and was ordained a rabbi at the Hebrew Union College.

For a complete list of CRI events for Spring 2007 (including concerts, books and their authors series, etc.), visit www.stbarts.org or call (212) 378-0222.

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