{"id":6701,"date":"2008-01-24T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2008\/01\/24\/temple_university_receives_gif\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T07:58:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T07:58:33","slug":"temple_university_receives_gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2008\/01\/24\/temple_university_receives_gif\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Temple University receives gifts to support interfaith dialogue and Islamic studies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/newsroom\/2007_2008\/01\/stories\/religiongift.htm\">Story<\/a> in Temple Today about the Religion Department receiving funding for interfaith dialogue and Islamic studies, two very important subjects here at Temple.  &#8220;The first gift, for $1.5 million, will honor two scholars by creating the Leonard and Arlene Swidler Chair of Interreligious Dialogue at Temple. Leonard Swidler has been a Temple professor since 1966 and is a leading expert in ecumenism; Arlene Swidler has taught courses in the fields of literature, women\u2019s studies and religion at a half-dozen universities, including Temple.  The second gift from Halloran, for $300,000, is a challenge grant toward raising a total of $1.5 million to create a chair in Islamic studies.&#8221;   &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <b>Subject Guides<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/classics\" id=\"p.2x\" title=\"Classics Subject Guide\">Classics<\/a> \/\/ <a title=\"Islamic Studies Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/islamicstudies\" id=\"kgqd\">Islamic Studies<\/a> \/\/ <a title=\"Jewish Studies Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/jewishstudies\" id=\"ct5c\">Jewish Studies<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/philosophy\" id=\"ovyo\" title=\"Philosophy Subject Guide\">Philosophy<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/religion\" id=\"prju\" title=\"Religion Subject Guide\">Religion<\/a> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story in Temple Today about the Religion Department receiving funding for interfaith dialogue and Islamic studies, two very important subjects here at Temple. &#8220;The first gift, for $1.5 million, will honor two scholars by creating the Leonard and Arlene Swidler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2008\/01\/24\/temple_university_receives_gif\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,188],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-sciences","tag-islamic-studies","tag-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}