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Donald Grabner
is a Benedictine monk, a member of Conception Abbey, Conception,
Missouri. He teaches theology and religion at Conception Seminary
College, a small, four-year, liberal arts college, sponsored and
administered by his community. In recent years he has concentrated
on courses in the Phenomenology of Religion and the study of the
individual major religious traditions of the contemporary world.
He is currently a board member of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
[MID.com], a group of Benedictines
and Cistercians who have been selected by their respective communities
to engage in dialogue with monks and nuns of non-Christian religions,
principally Hinduism and Buddhism. Various degrees of "culture-shock"
and "culture clash" encountered in this dialogue led to
his interest in participating in the present NEH Institute. He has
arrived at the tentative conclusion that many contemporary Asian
cultural characteristics often resemble pre-early-modern and early-modern
European characteristics before the "scientific/technological"
features had achieved dominance in the West. |