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The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 11, 1999 - 7A

Prof. speaks
about re ligion,
t echnology

Students volunteer during break

By Asma Rafeq
Daly Staff Reporter
Buddhist chanting, Islamic recitation
and Christian song came face to face
with multi-media technology yesterday
at Angell Hall.
As part of a lecture series sponsored
he University's Program on Studies
Religion, Duke University Prof.
Bruce Lawrence spoke about the
impact of information technology on
religious groups in the United States in
his lecture "From Civil to Information
Society."
Lawrence, chair of the religion
department at Duke, was chosen as the
American Academy of Religion's offi-
cial lecturer on the history of religions
* year.
"There is an up-side and a down-side
to globalization," Lawrence said.
-Critically evaluating a. CD-ROM
about religion in the United States
called "On Common Ground,"
Lawrence discussed many of the subtle
incongruities of the CD-ROM's por-
trayal of various religions.
Showing each relevant segment of
the CD-ROM twice for emphasis,
Lawrence claimed something that
A@ns truthful and positive at first can

actually be very distorted.
For example, Buddhism in the CD-
ROM is depicted as a "supermarket
religion" in which followers have a
choice on every aspect of their faith,
Lawrence said.
Members of the audience of more
than 40 students and faculty engaged in
the discussion, pointing out that the
CD-ROM selected a strange, non-
diverse sample of Christians, mostly
from Harvard University, unrepresenta-
tive of the religion's actual adherents.
They also criticized the CD-ROM's
portrayal of Muslims as outsiders in
conflict with society.
The CD-ROM Lawrence chose to
examine was only one example of many
new mediums that can inform the pub-
lic about religion.
Technology and religion are now
interwoven in other ways.
. "You will not find a religion out there
that does not have its own online match-
making services," Lawrence said.
University English and religion Prof.
Ralph Williams said technology is
changing the way religion is discussed
and researched. While the Internet is
convenient for students because of its
accessibility and utility, it also has

VOLUNTEERS
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"I learned so much ... you get to
see a life and environment that
you've never seen before," Rowland
said.
This year, ASB leaders are planning
to increase student diversity, said Erika
Zlatkoff, ASB Special Projects
Coordinator and a member of the ASB
Leadership Team. The Leadership Team
is comprised of 11 students who coor-
dinate the entire event and communi-
cate with site leaders.
"We tried to focus on attracting a
more diverse group of students, not cul-
turally, but more schools, like more Art
and Engineering students, and more
males," said Zlatkoff, an Art and
Design senior. She added that more
female students than male students typ-
ically participate in ASB.
Zlatkoff said the Leadership Team

also attempted to assemble students
with different social and economic
backgrounds.
Another focus this year was combin-
ing the information learned in class-
rooms with practical volunteer work.
For example, students from the
Engineering school are doing hands-on
science experiments with the Boys and
Girls Club, Zlatkoff said.
Women's studies students are also vol-
unteering in woman's shelters, gaining
insight into issues that perhaps cannot be
learned in a book, she said.
"We focus on what you can take out
of your classroom and share with the
community," Zlatkoff said.
Students participating in ASB are
holding several fund-raisers for their
trips. Fund-raisers include bucket dri-
ves in the Diag and Bowl-a-thons.
Participants also are writing grant pro-
posals and selling cards with discounts
to 11 local businesses.


Duke University religion Prof. Bruce Lawrence speaks at Angell Hall last night on
the impact of the information age on religion in the United States.

drawbacks, he said.
"The information may be solid or it
may not;' Williams said. "There's really
no process of evaluating a site's adequa-
cy."
Online discussion about religion lack
the personality of face to face discus-
sions, he said.
"There is a good deal of information
transmitted simply by being in the same
space as the person you're speaking
with;" he said.
Astrid Beck, program associate for
studies in religion, said the University
was the first of five universities at

which Lawrence chose to speak.
"It's an honor to be chosen and sec-
ond of all to have him come here first,"
she said.
Last night's presentation was the sec-
ond in series at the University this
week. Today's events include a panel
discussion, "God in the Information
Age: God.com," at 4p.m. in Rackham
Amphitheater, followed by a reception
open to the public. There is also a lec-
ture, "Revisiting Religious Pluralism,"
at 7:30p.m. in Angell Hall Auditorium
D.

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