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Participants from the 2024 ICJS Faculty Seminar that focused on interreligious perspectives on death and dying will discuss their research and work around end-of-life issues. The panelists will share their sacred work as chaplains and researchers and teachers on how their religious traditions help to shape the meaning, practices, and rituals associated with death and dying.
By Heather Miller Rubens | September 2024
When I’ve told people about the work we have been doing this past year at ICJS, they have a lot of questions: How are you actually able to do dialogue right now? Has the violence in Israel and Gaza frayed interreligious relationships beyond repair? What are commonly held expectations and fears about interreligious dialogue, particularly around Israel and Gaza? What has ICJS learned as an organization?
Uncover the goals of the Christian movement that is a threat to the American values of democracy and pluralism. Through podcasts, articles, courses, and videos, Matthew D. Taylor shares his research and storytelling.
For the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS), fostering dialogue in these trying times remains crucial, and we remain committed to it.
BALTIMORE—The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS) and Georgetown University Press have signed an exclusive series agreement to publish the Silber-Obrecht Lectures, the premier international lecture in the field of Interreligious/Interfaith Studies. The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, which aims to advance this developing field of academic inquiry, reflects that there are many modes of response…
The devastating Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, including the taking of hostages, and the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis that has killed over 40,000 Gazans, have caused profound grief, anger, and anguish. In this context, it has been challenging to even envision a path to dialogue. Yet, for the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS),…
Interreligious dialogue is difficult even in the best of times. But in the fraught atmosphere around the Israel-Hamas War, is dialogue possible—or even a good idea? This dilemma confronted the ICJS scholars this spring as they prepared to lead the annual ICJS 2024 Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI), a week-long residential experience at the Pearlstone…
Q&A with Melissa Zieve: Facilitated Dialogue on Israel and Gaza In the months after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, including the taking of hostages, and the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis that has killed over 40,000 Gazans, ICJS has received multiple requests from Baltimore-area high schools, organizations, government organizations, leadership programs,…
No matter what happens, we will be processing the results of the Nov. 5 election for some time. Join us for a post-election debrief, focusing on the role that religion—and Christian nationalism in particular—played in the campaigns and in the results. The panel will address what happened in the election, what we know, what we don’t know, and what questions this raises for American pluralism moving forward.
Mary, the mother of Jesus—Maryam in Arabic—is venerated by Christians and Muslims around the world. In this course, we will examine the Islamic portrayal of Mary as described in the Qur’an and the holy narrations of Prophet Muhammad, both normative sources for Muslims. We will identify similarities and differences that emerge in the Muslim depictions of Mary. By presenting examples of Islamic art and architecture, Zeyneb will highlight Mary’s ongoing importance in Muslim life. Finally, we will reflect about the possibilities of how Mary can serve as an important interreligious figure who can both divide and unite.
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