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Dalia Mogahed, one of the foremost researchers and experts on Islam in the U.S., will share insights into the attitudes, beliefs, and opinions of American Muslims, including opinions on complex issues such as gun control, abortion, and cyberbullying.
The Justice Leaders Fellowship is a 10-month intensive program for local community, nonprofit, and civic leaders to study and dialogue together. The 2022-2023 cohort will focus on economic justice. A new cohort starts in September 2022.
BALTIMORE—Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D., ICJS Executive Director and Roman Catholic Scholar, will be a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary this fall as she researches and writes a book to advance ICJS’ vision of an interreligious society. The book will be an accessible work for a broad audience about why ICJS’ vision of an interreligious society…
Over five days of mutual learning, challenging discussion, and blossoming friendships, a group of more than two dozen emerging Muslim and Christian religious leaders recently engaged in an innovative intensive course in interreligious dialogue. The Emerging Religious Leaders (ERL) course, held in early June on the campus of Virginia Theological Seminary, is a groundbreaking program…
BALTIMORE—The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS) has named Francis X. Clooney, S.J., a theologian at the Harvard Divinity School and a leader in the field of comparative theology and interreligious studies, as the inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecturer. The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, the first endowed lectureship in the emerging field of interreligious and interfaith studies,…
In July ICJS Jewish Scholar Ben Sax co-led Faiths & Ferocity, the inaugural ICJS Faculty Seminar with Kate Temoney, associate professor in the Department of Religion at Montclair State University. The seminar brought together scholars working in the fields of interreligious studies or genocide studies in the ICJS Library for an intensive week of study…
I am proud of my Judaism, but I wear it quietly. In the USA I have had years of developing an understanding of my identity as a minority outsider—years of growing up with the view that religious belief belongs in the private sphere, shared gently and carefully among those of one’s own faith. I am…
Interacting and engaging with peers and colleagues from other faiths has opened my eyes to a few issues. I realized that prejudice and bias exist not only towards Muslims, but also other groups. In many situations it manifests its ugly face as an outcome of unintentional ignorance and cultural baggage, influenced by media and societal…
I surround myself with creative people, but I usually do not consider myself to be creative. So I was shocked that I volunteered to work one-on-one with a storyteller to tell my Teachers Fellowship cohort a story at our Fellowship retreat. I am a preacher and a teacher, but I have never done something like…
From Supreme Court rulings to January 6th hearings, we have had a bright spotlight on the political and social polarization in our country. Emotions are raw and discussions quickly turn into arguments. Many of us are asking ourselves, as people of faith who believe in an interreligious society where religious difference becomes a powerful force for…
High school teachers serve as unintentional interreligious leaders, as they navigate classrooms with diverse students and teach history, politics/government, literature, art, religious studies,and language that regularly intersects with religion. ICJS equips secondary teachers to meet the challenge to transform classrooms into places of interreligious literacy and understanding.
How can our religious diversity become an asset that anchors our shared civic life? ICJS offers public events plus a cohort-based study year for nonprofit and community leaders interested in considering how Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions can enrich their justice-making work.
Religious leaders from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim congregations can rely on ICJS to help them build their congregation’s capacity to disarm religious bias and bigotry and to build resilient networks across diverse houses of worship.
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