Tuesday, May 7, 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 The Comparison Project 2012-2013 explored a range of religious explanations of and responses to suffering through a […]
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Wednesday, April 17 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 Gereon Kopf received his Ph.D. from Temple University and is currently professor of Asian and comparative religion at Luther College. As a research fellow
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Thursday, April 4 at 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 Steven T. Katz is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Boston
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Thursday, March 7 7:30 p.m. in the Cowles Library Reading Room for a creative nonfiction reading by Ruth Bachman and Andy Fleming, two member of Above + Beyond Cancer’s
Below you will find supplementary resources pertinent to The Comparison Project’s 2012-2013 theme of Religious Responses to Suffering. These resources come from students in Prof. Knepper’s Fall 2012 Comparative Religions
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Hector Avalos, Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University Response by Jennifer Harvey, Associate Professor of Religion, Drake University Thursday, February 14 6:30 p.m., Olin 101 A number of prominent writers
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Thursday, November 29 at 7:00 p.m., Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 924 Polk Blvd. The dialogue features five representatives of Des Moines area religious communities: Rabbi Steven Edelman-Blank, rabbi of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue; Howard Croweagle, American
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John Kiser, author The Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader and The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria Wednesday, November 14 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 John W. Kiser
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Michelene Pesantubbee, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Indian Native Studies, University of Iowa. Thursday, October 25 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 Professor Pesantubbee is an associate professor of Religious Studies at
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Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College Thursday, September 27 7:00 p.m., Harvey-Ingham 104 Sikhism accepts suffering — biological, psychological, and spiritual — as a natural part of life. According to Sikh
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