San Diego

City Profile: San Diego, CA (2012)

San Diego, a sprawling southern California city with seventy miles of coastline and a well known “surf and turf” culture, has a long history of religious diversity. The city was founded in 1769 as the first Catholic mission in California, Mission Basilica San Diego De Alcalá. Just over seventy-five years later, 500 Mormons trekked from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego to offer military support to the American army during the Mexican War. Their march—one of the longest in U.S. military history—is commemorated in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, located on Juan Street. ...

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Interreligious Activity in San Diego Since September 11 (2002)

Following the events of September 11, the atmosphere in San Diego was particularly tense. Three of the hijackers involved in the attacks were from the San Diego area, and San Diego has a strong military presence that includes the North Island Naval Air Station, Fort Rosencranz Military Reservation, Imperial Beach Naval Air Station, U.S. Naval Communication Center, and US Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Immediately following the events, Rev. Freeman, a minister in Chula Vista, organized an interfaith prayer service for that weekend. The next week during a regularly scheduled...

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Nasreen Yazdani

Nasreen Yazdani was a student at Smith College when she documented the Bahá’í centers of San Diego County, California, creating profiles for each center....

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Smith College
Northampton, MA

Dr. Evelyn Kirkley

Dr. Evelyn Kirkley is an associate professor in the religion and theology department at the University of San Diego. She became an Pluralism Project... Read more about Evelyn Kirkley
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA
2014 Nov 23

Case Study Workshop at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting

(All day)

Location: 

San Diego, CA, USA
Pluralism Project Director Diana Eck, Senior Research Associate Brendan Randall, and Assistant Director Whittney Barth co-led a two-hour workshop on the case method and its application to religious studies and interfaith/interreligious relations. The workshop included a discussion of "A Call to Prayer," a case study written by Research Director Elinor Pierce and set in Hamtramck, Michigan. The discussion was facilitated by Diana Eck. Brendan Randall gave an introduction to writing case studies and their pedagogical significance; Whittney Barth spoke about the use of case studies in diverse... Read more about Case Study Workshop at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting

Chabad of Coronado

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 12 January 2013.

Phone: 619-365-4728
Email: rabbieli@chabadcoronado.com [home], info@chabadcoronado.com [home]
Website: http://www.chabadcoronado.com/
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