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Yale to hold conference on homosexuality, globalization, and the Anglican schism

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Why Homosexuality? Religion, Globalization, and the Anglican Schism, an interdisciplinary conference organized by Yale’s LGBT Studies committee, will take place on October 17, 2009. From the LGBTS website:

Rather than restaging the arguments for and against the ordination of openly gay clergy, this day-long conference analyzes the threatened schism in the Anglican Communion in order to examine wide-ranging and interrelated issues of religion, secularism, globalization, nationalism, and modernity.  How and why, we ask, has homosexuality come to serve as a flash point for so many local and global conflicts?

Yale requests that participants pre-register here.

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Jessica Polebaum is a contributing editor for The Immanent Frame and a J.D. candidate at Georgetown University. A former program and editorial associate at the Social Science Research Council, she holds a B.A. in religion from Middlebury College, where her undergraduate work culminated in a senior honors thesis on ijtihad---a concept from classical Islamic law---and its use in modern reform movements. Upon graduating in 2008, she received the Ann and Edward Meyers Religion Prize for exceptional ability in the understanding, expression, and integration of ideas in the area of religious studies.

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