Beliau banyak menulis artikel dan buku tentang pengajian Islam. Antaranya adalah mengenai Hammam ibn Munabbih dalam The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies. Bennet memperolehi phd in islamic studies dari Birmingham Uni pada 1990. Fokus kajian beliau adalah tentang modern Muslim thinkers and movements. Beliau kini mengajar di State Uni of New York at New Paltz.
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Clinton Bennett was awarded the PhD in Islamic Studies by Birmingham University in 1990. He also holds the M.Ed. from Oxford and his undergraduate degree in Theology from Manchester University. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS) and of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI) he uses ethnography in his research. Interested in post-colonial literature, debates about "multi-culturalism"/identity in the modern, pluralist world he uses film and literature (especially colonial and post-colonial) in his teaching. A specialist in the study of Islam with a focus on modern Muslim thinkers and movements he is also concerned with how sensitive but critical issues in Religious Studies can be explored without offending religious insiders. An ordained Baptist minister, he has worked as a missionary in Bangladesh, as co-pastor of a multi-racial inner city congregation, on the staff of the British Council of Churches and as a College and University chaplain and teacher. Dr Bennett is currently a member and recognized minister of the Alliance of Baptists. He has written ten books. He has combined academic study of Islam with participation in interfaith dialogue, serving on several World Council of Churches committees. He has advised local mosques, chaired a school governing body and represented an NGO at the UN. He currently teaches at the State University of New York at New Paltz and at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Originally from England, Dr Bennett became a US citizen during 2012.
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