The havoc wrought by COVID-19 has foregrounded the need for robust resources and strategies for interreligious understanding and collaboration in situations where loss is multireligious—or the response to it should be.
This course surveys the development of Shiʿi Islam against the backdrop of major events and developments, views on succession after the Prophet, the formation of the caliphate, and the key Shiꜥī notion of Imamate.
Perhaps more than any other institution, religious congregations have resisted the revolution that technology has brought to communication, community, business, and finances.
This course will seek to better understand the dynamics that awareness of death gives us.
The purpose of this series of class sessions is to explore the tools needed to analyze and assess your congregation’s strengths and build an intentional strategy for ministry in the post-pandemic reality.
In this course we will explore how humankind finds meaning in life during times of uncertainty by examining the writings of famous thinkers, theologians and literary figures, and examine how suffering and struggle force the faithful to stretch their imagination to bring about powerful and prophetic movements for change.
This course introduces students to the Qur'an, and the hadith (words and actions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad himself).
This course provides the opportunity to step back to see the bigger picture of Islamic rules and regulations, the universal principles or higher objectives (maqasid) underlying them, and the complex interplay of reason, revelation, ethics and utility within this coherent system.
Islam and Christianity understand Jesus as an essential figure in connection to God's revelation to humanity, although each religious tradition has its particular view that makes them unique.
The gateway course to the MA in Interreligious Studies and a required course for the MA in Peacebuilding curriculum, Introduction to Interreligious Studies is an intersectional, integrative course that promotes deep understanding of worldviews different from one’s own.
