John
Kelsay
Distinguished
Research Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion
M05 Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Office: 206D Dodd Hall
Phone: (850) 644-0209
Fax: (850) 644-7225
Email: jkelsay@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
Curriculum
Vitae
Background
John
Kelsay (Ph.D. '85, University of Virginia, Ethics) is
Distinguished Research Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein Professor
of Religion. His work focuses on religious ethics, particularly
in relation to the Islamic and Christian traditions. His current
projects include two books, for which the working titles are Religion
and the Imperatives of Justice: The Islamic Law of War and Peace,
and Islam and the Political Future: The Doctrine of Jihad
and the Practice of Shari`a Reasoning. Professor Kelsay serves
as co-editor of the Journal
of Religious Ethics. In support of these projects, he
has received fellowships from the Princeton University Center
for Human Values and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Having
recently stepped down after ten years as Department Chair, Professor
Kelsay will be on leave during the 2006-07 academic year, during
which time he will be a fellow of the Institute for International
Integration Studies, Trinity University, Dublin.
Research
Interests
- Comparative
Religious Ethics
- Political
Ethics
- Religion
and War
Selected
Publications
- Books
- Human
Rights and the Conflict of Cultures (co-authored; University
of South Carolina, 1988)
- Just
War and Jihad (co-edited; Greenwood Press, 1991)
- Islam
and War: A Study in Comparative Ethics (Westminster/John
Knox, 1993)
- Articles
-
- "Islam
and the Comparative Study of Religious Ethics: Review of Selected
Materials, 1985-1995," in Religious Studies Review
23.1 (January
1997): 3-9.
- "Bin
Ladin's Reasons," in Christian Century 119.5
(February 27-March 6 2002): 26-29.
Current
Research Projects
Teaching
Specializations
- Religious
Ethics
- Christian
and Islamic Political Thought
Recent
Courses
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