Moderator:
- Norma Hirsch, Professor of Osteopathic Medicine at Des Moines University
Panelists:
- Younes Ali Younes, imam of the Islamic Center of Des Moines
- Ksenija Milinkovic, presbitera of St. Demetrius Serbian Orthodox Church
- Ajahn Jackson and Ajahn Somphan, Wat Phothisomphan
Thursday, December 8, 7:00 p.m.
Iles Funeral Homes, Dunn’s Chapel
2121 Grand Ave, Des Moines
Among other questions, the panel seeks to explore beliefs about what happens after death and practices concerning what must be done before and after death. Representatives of three different local refugee communities will explore these beliefs and practices from the perspectives of their religious traditions: Vietnamese Buddhism, African Muslim, and Serbian Christian. The panelists will focus particularly on the tensions between traditional theologies and rituals of death, and the way in which death has increasingly become the domain of medicine and law.
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