Dear Colleagues and Students,

Join us for the Study of Religions Seminar Series. 

Our next seminar Imagining a More Compassionate Post Covid-19 World presented by Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar takes place in-person on Wednesday, 28 August @ 13H00pm in the REL Seminar room, LS5.67 (Leslie Social Sciences Building, level 5) and will also be available via MS Teams for those who are unable to join in-person. 

Link to online paper: https://socialconcerns.nd.edu/virtues/magazine/imagining-a-more-compassionate-post-covid-19-world/

Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar is a Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Omar’s research and teaching focus on the roots of religious violence and the potential of religion for constructive social engagement and interreligious peacebuilding. He is the author of Islam Beyond Violent Extremism (Durban: Afrika Impressions Media, 2017) and  (co-author with David Chidester et al. of Religion in Public Education: Options for a New South Africa (UCT Press, 1994), a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2015), and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (Macmillan Reference USA, 2016). In addition to being a university-based researcher and teacher, Omar serves as Imam (religious minister) at the Claremont Main Road Masjid in Cape Town, South Africa, a trustee of the Healing of Memories Institute in South Africa, a member of the Interfaith Council for Ethics Education, Arigatou International in Japan, and an advisory board member for Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa.

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Microsoft Teams meeting 
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Meeting ID: 323 859 422 370 
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Please see the attached poster for more information.

Thank you!

Department for the Study of Religions