Religious Studies
Paul Mojzes, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Rosemont College, PA, where he served as Provost and Academic Dean. He was interim director of the Gratz College Holocaust and Genocide Studies doctoral program and is adjunct professor. He is a native of Yugoslavia where he studied at Belgrade University Law School, received the A.B. degree from Florida Southern College and Ph.D. degree from Boston University. He was the co-editor of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and is the founder and editor of Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe. Author of six and the editor of seventeen books, he has written over 100 articles and chapters in books. Among his recent books are Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century; Yugoslavian Inferno: Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans, Religious Liberty in Eastern Europe and the USSR, and edited Religion and War in Bosnia and North American Churches and the Cold War.
Dialogue Among Religions
Interreligious Dialogue
Attempting to replace the confrontational relationship
between religions, dialogue is an increasingly popular
approach of respectful listening and positive
engagement in order to find solutions to common
problems for mutual and general benefit. Intrareligious
dialogue and interreligious dialogue has
brought great improvement in mutual understanding
and cooperation, especially in the last 50 years.
Four Lectures
- Jewish-Christian Dialogue - Basically a post-Holocaust phenomenon, replacing
centuries of hostility between Christians and Jews,
dialogue has brought the best ever relationship
between Jews and Christians, especially in the U.S.
- Abrahamic Trialogue - An even more recent attempt is for Jews, Christians
and Muslims to use their common heritage to deal
with the huge challenges that are causing violent
conflict. Is there a chance that it will succeed?
- East-West Religious Dialogue - Whereas in the past Westerners tended to look
toward the religions of the East (e.g. Hinduism and
Buddhism) with disdain or curiosity, presently we are
tending to respectfully learn from each other.
- Religion in Dialogue with Atheism - The prevalent view is that religious people can only
debate with agnostics and atheists overlooking the
many common challenges and opportunities if
dialogue is used in their relationship.
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| Course # F4M3 — First 4 Weeks
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| Place: | Room 151 (Annex), Lifelong Learning Complex, Jupiter Campus |
| Dates: | Mondays, October 10, 17, 24, 31 2016 |
| Time: | 12 - 1:30 PM |
| Fee: | $34 / member; $54 / non-member |
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