Patrice Brodeur (Harvard University)

Patrice Brodeur
Doctoral candidate

Mail Address:
P.O. Box 382159
Cambridge
MA 02238-2159
USA

Phone: (617) 983-2610
Fax:   (617) 983-2610
E-mail: brodeur@fas.harvard.edu

Work Description:

My current dissertation focuses on contemporary Arab Muslim perceptions of
religions other than Islam.  Therefore, my general interests are: Islam in
the Arab world or the Middle East in the modern and contemporary period;
methodology in islamic studies and the history of religion or religions;
the philosophy of self and Other representation.  In addition,
Christian-Muslim, Jewish-Christian-Muslim, Jewish-Muslim,
Islamo-Jewish,and Islamo-Christian dialogue (any direction of 
inter-religious dialogue) are all forms of conversations shaping
perceptions of the Other in a so-called new world order of identity
politics where the discourse on post-colonialism and post-orientalism confronts that of various forms of
fundamentalism, from secularism to neo-liberalism passing by religious and
ethnic traditionalism.

Teaching interests: introduction to Islam and religion in
general; Islamic liberation theology; modernist Islam around the world;
Malaysian and Indonesian Islam; Islamic institutions of education,
especially higher education; the israeli-arab-palestinian conflict in
Israel and Palestine; politics in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq;
the arabic and hebrew language; anthropology and sociology of the Near
East; human rights, women rights, minorities, peace and justice 
initiatives in the Middle East; islamization of knowledge; democracy;
feminism; modern legal development in shari'ah; dhimmi or ahl al-kitab
status; Islam and the West relations; history.