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15DEC 2024
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Fürth History – Meeting with the Granddaughter of Dr. Hallemann
On 13 December 2024, the granddaughter of Fürth doctor and educator Dr Isaak Hallemann, Mrs Gal Batia Gabriel, visited the synagogue in Fürth. Accompanied by her husband and other acquaintances, she travelled to Fürth as part of a trip to Europe and talked about her father’s memories of the Hallemann family and the Jewish orphanage […]
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11DEC 2024
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Educational Module: The “Religious Other” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
How religions encounter each other characterizes not only interreligious coexistence but also the self-image of the community. Religions may perceive the “religious other” as foreign or familiar. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are related to each other, so individual ideas of the “other religion” are either adopted unchanged or reinterpreted in one’s own theological ideas. Four lectures on this topic were […]How religions encounter each other characterizes not only interreligious coexistence but also the self-image of the community. Religions may perceive the “religious other” as foreign or familiar. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are related to each other, so individual ideas of the “other religion” are either adopted unchanged or reinterpreted in one’s own theological ideas. Four lectures on this topic were […]
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26NOV 2024
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Puzzling with snippets of text: How to reconstruct biographies from book titles, printer’s licences and letters
The 7th conference of the Jewish Franconia Network took place on 24 November 2024 at the Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth. It was opened by District Administrator Armin Kroder and Dr Annett Haberlah-Pohl, Head of Cultural Affairs and District Heritage Officer of the District of Middle Franconia. Professor Dr Lucia Raspe (Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute) […]
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13NOV 2024
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#AskYourScientist: The BaFID team answers questions about religions on Instagram
“How is the term jihad to be understood?” These and other questions will be at the BaFID Instagram channel discussed. It is a key component of the “WissenMachtStark” project, which was launched and funded (01.12.2023 to 31.12.2024) by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs. The Instagram channel was launched at the […]
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05NOV 2024
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Interreligious Calendar for the Year 2025
BaFID is publishing a print version of the Interreligious Calendar for the second time. For the year 2025, the focus is on the communities in the region. Twelve communities and places of religious life in the European metropolitan region of Nuremberg are shown in pictures in this successful piece of jewellery for every wall. Each […]
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23OCT 2024
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Public lecture series on the topic of “Interreligious aspects of communicating values in current public discourses”
This winter semester 2024/2025, BaFID is hosting a public lecture series on the topic of “Interreligious aspects of communicating values in current public discourses”. All events can be visited online; here Dial-in link. The hybrid events take place at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Address: Bismarckstr. 1, 91504 Erlangen, C-Tower room 202. […]This winter semester 2024/2025, BaFID is hosting a public lecture series on the topic of “Interreligious aspects of communicating values in current public discourses”. All events can be visited online; here Dial-in link. The hybrid events take place at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Address: Bismarckstr. 1, 91504 Erlangen, C-Tower room 202. […]
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14OCT 2024
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Conference “How much religion does democracy need?”
On 10 September 2024, the conference “How much religion does democracy need?” occurred at the Hanns Seidel Foundation Conference Centre in Munich. The Bavarian State Minister of the Interior, for Sport and Integration, Joachim Herrmann, MdL, and the Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Markus Ferber, MdEP, organised the conference. Academics and leading representatives of […]
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29JUL 2024
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Start of the Co-operation Project with the Scharrer Middle School
In June 2024, Scharrer Middle School received the Etz Chaim Cup, which has been awarded by the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Franken e.V. (GCJZ) for 10 years now for projects that emphasise and promote cooperation and mutual respect between the three monotheistic religions. The school is given the opportunity to realise its own ideas […]
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22JUL 2024
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Proceedings of the Conference Series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses”
The Concept of Prophecy and the Concept of Spiritual Beings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Meeting of the conference series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses”, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 26-28 June 2024 There are concepts that occur in all three major monotheistic religions. However, it would be premature to deduce from the conceptual agreement alone that Judaism, […]The Concept of Prophecy and the Concept of Spiritual Beings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Meeting of the conference series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses”, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 26-28 June 2024 There are concepts that occur in all three major monotheistic religions. However, it would be premature to deduce from the conceptual agreement alone that Judaism, […]
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01JUL 2024
News from BaFID
Bavarian Minister of the Interior Herrmann visits BaFID
The Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, visited the Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse (BaFID) at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg last Friday, 28 June 2024. The research centre, founded in October 2020, is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Integration. Since June, the centre has been working with […]
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