Programs & Events
The Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue offers a number of programs to the community, all designed to promote unity and understanding of both the self and of the global community.
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- Seminar on Religion and Contemporary Issues:
Faith Based Diplomacy: Bridging the Religious Divide
Religion has been faced with many challenges throughout its history and at times has sought to reject, accommodate, or welcome these new challenges. In the past 20-25 years we have seen religious extremism growing in the world, including our own country. This seminar will address the essential steps needed to bridge the religious gap between faiths through acts of diplomacy.
This program is part of a bi-yearly seminar in which religion experts, religious representatives of different faiths, other professionals, and their academic counterparts analyze contemporary issues in religion.
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm
Place: Nazareth College Shults Center, Forum
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Doug Johnston
This event is free and open to the public.
- Facing Our Fears about Islam
Presented by the Commission on Christian Muslim Relations (CCMR) and co-sponsored by CISD. This series will use a combination of videos and outside speakers to focus on the fears non-Muslims tend to have about Muslims and Islam. These fears are often triggered by the media's indiscriminate use of words and images. We will look at these words and images of see where the problems lie and to work out together ways of addressing them.
Dates: Monday evenings, 10/20, 10/27, and 11/3
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm
Place: Islamic Center of Rochester, 727 Westfall Road, Rochester, NY 14620
For a detailed list of events and to see the flyer, please click here.
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What Religious Values Do You Take into the Voting Booth? A Community Discussion
How often do you participate in a conversation about your values and morals and the manner in which your religious faith informs their practice?
Do family and friends know the religious values that inform, guide, and decide your chocie for President of the United States?
Where and when have you taken time for civil discourse about these essential things?
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm
Place: Nazareth College, Shults Center, Forum
Format: Open gathering where key questions will be introduced; break-out into small group discussion; return to the full group for sharing of our ideas.
This event is free and open to the public.
To see the program flyer, please click here.
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CISD Quarterly Book Discussion
The Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue sponsors a quarterly gathering to discuss a significant book or article dealing with world religions.
For more information on our quarterly book discussions, click here.
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Time: 7pm
Place: Nazareth College, Golisano Room 325
This event is free and open to the public.
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Seminar on Abrahamic Religions: Similarities and Differences (panel discussion)
Conflicts within our modern society, such as violence, terrorism, and tension in the Middle East have placed pressure on Abrahamic religions. Many people are confused about what relationships there are among the Abrahamic faiths and how these relationships are important to matters facing us today. This seminar will focus on outlining the similarities and differences between the three faith traditions.
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Place: Nazareth College Shults Center, Forum
This event is free and open to the public.
- Living Healthy: The Body, Mind and Soul Connection
A seminar for nurses and health care professionals, this program is designed to help them in understanding the importance of spiritual and traditional values in caring for patients. *
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 8:15pm
Place: Monroe Community Hospital, Auditorium A, B, & C
Registration Fee: To Be Annouced
*This continuing nursing education activity has been submitter to the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
- A Seminar on Teaching and Understandning World Religions (panel discussion)
This is a half-day workshop intended to inform teachers from both private and public schools (all grade levels) in the rituals and holidays of world religions. The needs and viewpoints of teachers involved with teaching world religions will be tracked, as well as their expectations for their students. The program is vital for teachers in understanding the beliefs of a religiously diverse classroom and global community.
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 6:30pm
Place: Nazareth College Shults Center, Forum
- Seminar on Religion and Contemporary Issues:
The concept of non-violence in Islam and Abdul-Ghaffar Khan's Khudai Khidmatgar movement in Afganistan and Pakistan
After 9/11 the religion of Islam has been a topic of discussion among academic institutions and people in general. It has been stated by some that Islam is a religion of violence. This seminar, however, will discuss key concepts from Islam's holy text, the Qur'an, relating to the practice of non-violence. Also to be discussed is the non-violent movement of Khudai Khidmatgar by Abdul-Ghaffar Khan taking place within Afganistan and Pakistan, an area widely known as a place for violence.
This program is part of a bi-yearly seminar in which religion experts, religious representatives
of different faiths, other professionals, and their academic counterparts analyze contemporary issues in religion.
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm
Place: Nazareth College Shults Center, Forum
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeffery Halverson
This event is free and open to the public.
- Seminar on Death and Dying in World Religions (panel discussion)
This is a seminar held annually which will address the complexities of death and dying highlighted through the critical perspective of religious traditions from around the world. Participants will gain invaluable respect, wisdom, and insight into the beauty and importance held in the traditions and beliefs of a variety of world religions.
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Place: Nazareth College Shults Center, Forum
This event is free and open to the public.
- Nudging Peace: Notes from a Diplomat's Diary
This lecture will be presented by Lois Cecsarini and will examine some of the lessons of peacemaking she learned from her experiences in Angola, Rwanda, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine.
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Time: TBA
Place: Nazareth College, exact location TBA
Keynote Speaker: Lois Cecsarini
This event is free and open to the public.
- CISD Fourth Anniversary Celebration
The CISD first, second, and third anniversary celebrations attracted many people to attend a dinner, a sacred music festival, and last year the evening of comedy. Many thanks to the planning committee for helping in organizing the anniversaries. Check back here for information on this year's celebration as the year progresses.
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 (subject to change)
Time: TBA
Place: Nazareth College Shults Center, Forum
- Religions and Life Behind Bars
This is a workshop for the administrators and chaplains of New York State correctional facilities that investigates the history, beliefs, rituals, and moral imperatives of the current prison population. The basic religious needs of the prison population, as well as those particular to certain faiths, are reviewed through the use of contemporary pedagogical methods. This will help participants to deal with interfaith conflict within their particular population.
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Time: TBA
Place: Nazareth College, exact location TBA
- Training of the Trainers: A Certificate Program on World Religions
A weeklong annual summer workshop planned to introduce the participant to the practices and faiths of the religious traditions of the world. The program will feature activities created to introduce knowledge of beliefs, topical discussions focuesed on moral imperatives and communal organization, and visits to religious centers of faith to better understand worship.
Date: June 2009, exact dates TBA
Time: TBA
Place: Nazareth College, exact location TBA
- The Next Generation: Living Together in a Religiously Pluralistic Society
Students from diverse religious backgrounds will come together for this annual weekend workshop conference. Workshops and seminars will educate and inform participants about religious traditions from around the world, focusing on the importance of interfaith knowledge in a religiously pluralistic society. The students will visit religious places of worship and participate in social and cultural sharing.
Date: August 2009, exact dates TBA
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
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The Next Generation: Living Together in a Multi-Religious Society
Date: August 22-24, 2008
Students from diverse religious background will come together for a weekend conference. Workshops and seminars will educate and inform them about religious traditions from around the world focusing on the importance of interfaith knowledge in a religiously pluralistic society. The students will visit religious places of worship and participate in social and cultural sharing.
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Certificate Programs in World Religions: Training of the Trainers
Date: June 23-27, 2008
A weeklong summer workshop planned to introduce the participant to the practices and faith of the religious traditions of the world. The program will feature activities created to introduce knowledge of beliefs, topical discussions focused on moral imperatives and communal organization, and visits to religious centers of faith to understand worship.
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