EME Learning
EME learning grows through IARF’s Free Religion Institute and through programmes created with regional member organisations and EME leaders.
The selection below highlights current courses with a clear organisational connection to EME. It is deliberately curated rather than based simply on where a speaker happens to live.
The Bektashi Spiritual Path
Dr Arben Sulejmani · four-session course
Begins 21 November 2026
An introduction to Bektashi history, spirituality, inner transformation, poetry and contemporary witness, led by a representative of the Bektashi community in North Macedonia and the World Bektashi Community.
A Look at the Concept of Freedom From Different Religious Perspectives
Monthly interreligious discussion series
Next: Unitarian perspective · 31 August 2026
BEYOND and the Free Religion Institute explore freedom through Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Unitarian, Buddhist and other perspectives. Earlier sessions remain available through the course.
Free Religion – History and Evolution to the Present Day
Pascal Schilling · four-session course
Next session: 11 October 2026
A historical and contemporary exploration of Germany’s Free Religious movement, from its nineteenth-century roots through modernity, persecution, post-war renewal and its connections with the international liberal religious movement.
