Comparative Religion students will be presenting their experiences from a visit to Topeka,Kansas this summer to interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church and othermembers of the local community as part of the Empathy and the Religious "Enemy" project, lead by Dr. Gray. Free pizza will be provided.
Empathy and the Religious “Enemy” is an ongoing project of field work, public scholarship, and student engagement, led by principal investigator Dr. Hillel Gray. The project employs critical-empathic, non-judgmental research methods through direct interaction with members of radically controversial, often hated religious groups, namely the Westboro Baptist Church and the Neturei Karta, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish, anti-Zionist group opposed to the State of Israel and in favor of Palestinian sovereignty.
