Karel Peter Leonard Gerard Kersten
Dr Carool Kersten is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at King's College London (KCL) and an associate lecturer in the Faculty of Arts of Open University (OU) in the United Kingdom. His research interests include contemporary thought in the Muslim world, intellectual history of the Muslim world, Islamic Studies as a field of academic inquiry, theory and method of the study of religions, the history of Islam in Southeast Asia, Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia, travel writing.
Publications include Strange Events in the Kingdoms of Cambodia and Laos 1635-1644 (Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2003)*, Dr. Muller's Asian Journey: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Yunnan (1907-1909) (Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2005). He has contributed chapters to edited volumes in world religions and Southeast Asian history, theMacMillan Encyclopedia on Race and Racism, and references works on history by ABC-CLIO. Articles and book reviews have appeared in journals like Asian Affairs (AA), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (BSOAS), Bijdragen Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KILTV), Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS), Al-Masaq: Studia Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea, Middle Eastern Studies (MES), Journal of the Siam Society (JSS), Poligrafi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (JISR), Prajñâ Vihâra (ABAC),Religious Studies Review (RSR).
He has a PhD in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and Afircan Studies (SOAS) in London and an MA in Arabic Language and Culture from the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Dr. Kersten is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK), the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIL) in the UK, the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), and the American Academy of Religions (AAR).
* see the Suite101 article by John Walsh.
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Mahmud Muhammad Taha and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
When thinking about religiously inspired violence, its occurence within religious traditions is often forgotten.
Sep 6, 2008
- Karel Peter Leonard Gerard Kersten
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