The Khōjā of Tanzania, Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity (jamatī) from their initial Indic caste identity (jnāti) towards an emergent Near Eastern imaged Islamic nation (ummatī) through four disciplinary approaches:...

This summer at Children's College we have worked with our students on the theme of attitude. The challenges of growing up in this community are immense as children have anger and frustrations that they are not able to express. This is reflected in how students interact with others once they leave our program. We are fortunate to have the summer program to work with them again to help them understand that their thoughts, beliefs, and actions have an impact on their life and future. This project on attitude is based on our accumulated knowledge and experience of more than 33 years of serving...