On Saturday, October 21, from 5:30-7:30pm, the Hindu Cultural and Educational Center (1940 E Army Post Road, Des Moines) will be hosting a celebration of the annual festival of Navaratri (for […]
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On Thursday, October 19 at 7:00 pm in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center), Eric Steinhart, Professor of Philosophy at William Patterson University and author of Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life
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On Saturday, September 9, from 2:00 – 4:30 pm, the Muslim Community Organization (aka Masjid an-Noor) at 1117 42nd Street, Des Moines will be hosting an open-house that includes tours
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On Thursday, September 14 at 7:00 pm in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center), Robert Geraci, Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College and author of Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism
On Saturday April 1 at 7:30 pm, Ezan Islamic and Education Center (6206 Douglas Ave, Des Moines) is hosting an iftar dinner for the public. This Bosnian Muslim community
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In 2023, Meet My Religious Neighbor returned to a partnership between The Comparison Project and CultureALL, the Des Moines Area Religious Council, and Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, with each partner
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On Sunday, December 4, members of the local Soka Gakkai International community (which practices Japanese Nichiren Buddhism) will visit to Drake University to speak about their religious faith and show how they practice
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In Fall 2022 (Oct. 28-30, the Iowa Interfaith Conference was hosted by Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Participating schools visited the Tristate Islamic Center, a Catholic Worker Farm, Native American
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On March 18-20, 2020, nearly two dozen global-critical philosophers of religion will participate in a NEH-supported mini-conference that explores alternative sets of topics, methods, and aims for global-critical philosophy of
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On Thursday, November 17, we welcome Ron Cole-Turner, the former H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, to Drake to give the third Fall 2022 lecture
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