To kick off the season for non-violence, Sinclair Community College is a holding a World Religions and Spiritualities week to promote tolerance and respect of people from different faiths, according to Barbara Battin, interfaith campus minister.<\/p>\n
The celebration will be starting on Monday, Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. in the Library Loggia, where Battin will make an introduction and Mo Khani, Geography professor will follow with a presentation on geography of world religions, according to Battin. It will continue through Feb. 3 with each day having a variety of different speakers and events going on.<\/p>\n
Tuesday will be focused on Eastern religions, Wednesday on Western religions and Thursday on spiritual practices. Each day there will be a reading of the children\u2019s book \u201cOld Turtle,\u201d which calls for religious awareness and a chance to win a stuffed turtle afterwards.<\/p>\n
The event is being held to give the Sinclair community a chance to \u201cexplore religious and spiritual, promote dialogue and seek mutual understanding,\u201d according to Battin.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur world is full of conflict and one Rabi, I think in the Dayton Daily News a while ago, quoted the UN as saying \u2018most of the major conflicts in the world has something to do with religion.\u2019 So one of the key issues in our century, is to learn how to, not just to tolerate, but to appreciate one another\u2019s religious traditions,\u201d Battin said.<\/p>\n
The event is also corresponding with the season of non-violence, which starts on Jan. 30, the death date of Mohandas Gandhi and goes through April 4, the death date of Martin Luther King, Jr. Battin said the week is one way of practicing non violent relationships with one another.<\/p>\n
The focus of the non violence season this year is building the beloved community and using Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s world house vision which comes from his book, \u201cWhere do we go from here: Chaos or Community?,\u201d according to Battin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live in a world where the students that are being educated at this college will go into a work place that has a great diversity to it and one of those diversity issues is religion,\u201d she said. \u201cDuring Ramadan, if someone sitting in the cubicle next to you is Muslim and you invite them to lunch and they say \u2018I\u2019m sorry I can\u2019t.\u2019 It would be important for you to know why, that they are engaging in a religious fast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amanda Hayden, Religion professor said she hopes that everyone at Sinclair finds at least sometime to come down to check out the event and that they find something beneficial from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cLearning about other faiths and religions shouldn\u2019t be something we fear, but should be something that helps us grow and learn and discover our own beliefs and practices more authentically,\u201d Hayden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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