NEW YORK, NEW YORK, May 3, 2007: (HPI note: A reader recommended this training program.) The United States today is an increasingly multi-religious society, and many who are engaged in religious formation, training, and ministry are seeking opportunities to dialogue with people outside their religious tradition. The Interfaith Academies for Religious Leaders are intensive study programs for people engaged in or training for leadership in various religious traditions. The Interfaith Academy for Emerging Religious Leaders and the Interfaith Academy for Religious Professionals provide a forum where people from diverse religious traditions can learn about each other’s faiths with and from each other. The Academies will involve lectures, seminars, and readings on a variety of religious traditions, as well as group visits to various places of religious observance. Most importantly, participants will have the opportunity to build relationships and learn from one another through conversation in the classroom, in dormitories and at meals.
The Interfaith Academy for Emerging Religious Leaders, June 13-27, is a two-week course for people in the process of formation for leadership/ministry in their religious community. While there is no age limit, this academy is intended for people in training for leadership, not for persons already ordained or otherwise recognized as leaders in their religious body.
The Interfaith Academy for Religious Professionals is a similarly structured weeklong course for people already active in religious leadership as clergy, professors and teachers or in other vocations.
For complete information on both Academies and to download the application forms, please go to source.