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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On May 13, from 2:30 – 5:30 pm, Masjid an-Noor (1117 42nd St, Des Moines) will host an Eid party and open house. Come meet the rich, multi-ethnic Muslim community
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On April 20 at 7:00 pm, in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, Zhange Ni, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Virginia Tech University, will lecture on “Gender, Sexuality,
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On Sunday, April 16, we will celebrate the annual holiday of Vaisakhi from roughly 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm with the Sikh gurdwara in West Des Moines, the Iowa Sikh
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On Thursday, February 23, from 7:00–8:30 pm, in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, we host our first scholar lecture of the semester in our “Transhumanism, Religion, and Immortality Series.” Gereon Kopf, Professor of Religion at
On Sunday, February 19, from 3:00–5:00 pm, we kick off our Spring 2023 programming with “Roads to Religion,” a two-hour open house at which visitors can meet members of 30 local religious communities collectively representing
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On May 11, from 7:00–8:30pm in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, we host the third lecture of the semester, “Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and the Turing Test
