Dr. Ingrid Mattson at Respect Graduate School Conference 10-21-2017

Dr. Ingrid Mattson delivered the keynote address at Respect Graduate School's inaugural conference, "Islam in America: Civic and Religious Youth Identities" on October 21, 2017.
The Islam in America conference aimed to create a learning community platform and welcomed papers addressing various religiously identified youth groups. By solicited balanced participation by diasporic Islamic communities - immigrant-origin as well as Black American and Latino American - in conjunction with other faith communities, it was our goal to foster a collaborative learning effort that would actuate a cross-pollination of best practices and theoretical, conceptual richness for understanding and cultivating healthy and productive religious and civic identities for youth. To this end, we welcomed papers from across all academic disciplines. And drawing on either scholarly literature or community involvement, we also invited contributions from researchers and practitioners to offer new concepts, case studies and models, or to share experiences in families, schools and communities that can facilitate healthy youth development.
Respect Graduate School (RGS) is an academic institution in Bethlehem, PA that opened in 2015 and offers a Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies. RGS’s mission is to be an institution where students and faculty engage in research, teaching, learning, and service with an emphasis on Islamic Studies for the public good.

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MashaAllah very good introduction, topic and talk!!! Jazakumullahu khayra Respect community and Dr. Mattson!!!

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Alhamdulillah.....

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Thank you for the great talks. Could the sound be better?