IARF Member Groups
The International Association for Religious Freedom includes over 90 member organizations in 27 countries, speaking more than 20 languages and representing faith traditions from all continents. The IARF is the oldest global inter-religious organization and the only one with corporate memberships by constituent religious communities. For more than 100 years the IARF has worked for […]
Review: The Great Transformation – The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
From the Axial Age Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 469 pp. Karen Armstrong has written her most important book to date, tracing the origins of our religious inheritance in four centers of the Axial Age: China, India, Greece, and Palestine. The Axial […]
Boston Dialogue Foundation Program
“Muhammad: Prophet of Islam“ Sunday evening, April 1st, 2007 IARF US Chapter Board members attended a special program in Boston hosted by the Boston Dialogue Foundation, the MIT Rumi Club, the Fountain, and the Graduate Rumi Club of NorthEastern University. We were treated to a delicious dinner and great conversation with our table mates, who […]
The International Association of Liberal Religious Women
Our member group the IALRW is one of the oldest international women’s organizations in the world. It was convened in Berlin in 1910 and since that time has provided a link between liberal religious women throughout the world. It serves to promote friendship and cooperation between like-minded women and is a channel of communication for those […]
How to be a Perfect Stranger
by Stuart M. Matlins This easy-to-use fourth edition is updated and revised with the latest membership statistics on the various faith traditions, an expanded glossary of religious terms and an all-new section on popular religious symbols. It also includes the “Everything You Need to Know Before You Go” checklist. This book helps turn the “strange” […]
How to Host an Interfaith Dinner
The idea to host an interfaith dinner group for lay people in our community of Melrose, MA came about after learning about the “circle groups†at IARF (International Association for Religious Freedom) Congresses. These groups are comprised of individuals of different religions, who meet together during the Congress. The purpose is: for participants to talk […]
Slideshow of 2006 Congress
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Celebrating Together
by Doris Hunter At 5:30am one morning last week at the monastery I joined the monks and nuns for morning meditation. Going into the great hall I looked up at the three gigantic golden Buddhas looming over me. I stood in the line with other visitors and I heard over 500 voices chanting the sutra, […]
Interfaith program, Leh (Kashmir) branch, 2005
Organized by Ven. Bhikku Sanghasena, Leh branch chairman. 25 August, 2005 Around 400 specially invited delegates from India and abroad attended. Five delegates from member group IALRW (Japan) also attended this grand program on the banks of the Indus River. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama attended and delivered an inaugural speech in which he […]