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The Convocation Co-Sponsors
The Board of Directors, staff and members of the AIDS National Interfaith Network sincerely appreciate the vision, commitment and hard work of our co-sponsors in the planning and production of this Convocation.
The opinions expressed at this AIDS & Religion in America Convocation, whether verbal or written, are to be attributed to their source, and do not express the opinions of the AIDS National Interfaith Network or its sponsors, unless expressly endorsed by ANIN's Board of Directors.
The American Academy of Religion
Dr. Barbara DeConcini, Executive Director
1703 Clifton Rd., NE, Suite G5, Atlanta, Georgia 30329-4075
The American Academy of Religion is the major learned society and professional association of research scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies. The Academy serves over 8,500 members, the great majority of whom teach in some 1,500 college and university departments and schools in North America....The AAR's history is one of development from a small group of biblical scholars in 1909 to its current status as the largest, most comprehensive association dedicated to promoting the academic study of religion....Its annual conference, held jointly with the Society of Biblical Literature, attracts over 8,000 scholars. The Journal of the American Academy of Religion publishes current scholarship across the spectrum of the field, in addition the AAR and the SBL jointly publish Religious Studies News quarterly.
The Interdenominational Theological Center
Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin, Jr., President
700 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30314
Established in 1958, ITC maintains its position as the nucleus of theological education for African-Americans in the world. ITC is an ecumenical, co-educational, graduate professional school of theology which specializes in educating women and men who serve the church and world community. The center is comprised of constituent seminaries that date back as far as 1867. During the turbulent decade of the 1950s, leaders of the African-American church recognized the need for a seminary that could prepare men and women of faith for leadership in the black community and the nation in the era of challenge and opportunity heralded by the Civil Rights Movement. These several institutions, their respective track records and traditions notwithstanding, chose to unite, and a world-class institution was born.
The Interfaith Health Program of the Carter Presidential Center
Rev. Gary Gunderson, Director
One Copenhill, 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30307
The Interfaith Health Program of the Carter Presidential Center seeks to encourage faith groups to improve the individual and collective health of their members and the local global communities they serve. We seek to improve health outcomes through integrating the strengths and resources of the faith community with public health programs. We want to expand the definition of health as understood by public health professionals to take into account the potentials of faith groups as partners, especially in the implications for behavioral and social risk factors. We want to expand the definition of faith as understood by leaders of churches, synagogues and mosques to take into account the potentials of public health science as partners, especially in the implications for prevention of suffering and health promotion as aspects of redemption and wholeness. Among both communities we promote increased capacity for collaboration, development of common vision and integrated action strategies.
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