Elijah Interfaith
Summer School and Interreligious Training Seminar, 2021
Live from Jerusalem
“Interreligious Perspectives on Global Solidarity and Caring for the Other”
August 1-5, 2021 on Zoom
This year's summer school program
will take place on zoom, August 1-5, 2021.
Location
Live from Jerusalem
peta@elijah-interfaith.org
What are religions supposed to do: on what domains of life do they impact and what do they achieve?
What happens in times of crisis? Do crises enhance the functioning of religion, undermine it or both?
The recent COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to study the function of religion at a moment of global crisis.
We will hear from scholars of religion what they understand about the way that religions operate and we will hear from some of the world’s most prominent religious leaders about how they dealt with challenges during COVID-19, through a unique series of interviews carried out by the Elijah Interfaith Institute, titled “Coronaspection”.
Topics include:
- Understanding the human condition
- Interconnectivity: the place of humans in relation to each other and to the universe
- The role of religions in social service and acts of kindness
- The forms and functions of prayer and meditation
- The role of religious leadership
Summer school activities include
- academic lectures
- panels of scholars and religious leaders
- viewing and analyzing video messages of world religious leaders (Coronaspection project)
- small group textual study
- prayer and meditation
- anchoring activities in religious sites in Jerusalem and elsewhere
- bibliodrama workshops
- guided group discussion
Program
Day 1
01 Aug 2021
Day 2
02 Aug 2021
Day 3
03 Aug 2021
Day 4
04 Aug 2021
Day 5
05 Aug 2021
Welcome and introductions
(including introduction to the topic)
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Peta Jones Pellach
10:30 EDT
11:30 EDT
11:45 EDT
12:45 EDT
13:00 EDT
9:00 EDT
10:30 EDT
10:45 EDT
12:15 EDT
12:30 EDT
9:00 EDT
9:15 EDT
“Chavruta”
excerpts from encyclicals
10:00 EDT
Presentation
(guest scholar)
10:45 EDT
11:00 EDT
Discussion and voices of different traditions in dialogue with the texts and presentation
2-3 voices of different religions
12:30 EDT
9:00 EDT
9:15 EDT
“Chavruta”
excerpts from encyclicals
10:00 EDT
Presentation
(guest scholar)
10:45 EDT
11:00 EDT
Discussion and voices of different traditions in dialogue with the texts and presentation
2-3 voices of different religions
12:30 EDT
9:00 EDT
10:45 EDT
11:00 EDT
12:30 EDT
