KELLY JAMES CLARK, PH.D
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Kelly James Clark, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. Kelly is former Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI, and he has held visiting appointments at Oxford University, the University of St. Andrews and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author, editor, or co-author of more than thirty books including Strangers, Neighbors, Friends: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Reflections on Compassion and Peace, Written to Be Heard: Recovering the Lost Messages of the Gospels, God and the Brain: Neuroscience and the rationality of belief, Abraham's Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict, Religion and the Sciences of Origins. His most recent book: A Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought: Gods, Ancestors and Afterlife (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Kelly writes broadly and speaks widely on compassion, tolerance and peace.