Weeklong Institute Examines Judaism, Christianity and Islam in America

The University of Southern Maine Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, Bangor Theological Seminary and Saint Joseph’s College of Maine are the sponsors of a weeklong institute, “Religion and the Challenge of America: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.” The institute will run Sunday, June 19 through Friday, June 24 on the campus of Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, Maine.

A visiting faculty of some of the most important voices in the emerging area of global interreligious dialogue will join local religious and academic leaders in facilitating the program which celebrates the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. Nostra Aetate is a “Declaration on the Relations of the Church to Non-Christian Religions” proclaimed by Pope Paul VI in 1965. A complete list of faculty leading the institute can be seen at http://www.bts.edu/trobisch/Presentations/dialoguebrochure.pdf.

Tuition for the week is $400, with individual plenary sessions and workshops open for $40 each. Room and board are available. For registration information, contact Summer Programs at Saint Joseph’s College at 207-893-7825 or jirvine@sjcme.edu. Saint Joseph’s College is a 350-acre campus on Sebago Lake in Standish, 18 miles from Portland.

For information about the institute or any of the participating faculty, contact Abraham Peck at the University of Southern Maine Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, 207-780-5331.

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