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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".

There are concepts that occur in all three major monotheistic religions. Scientists from all over the world discuss these and present their findings annually at the conference series ‘Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses’ at FAU Erlangen.

The Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse (BaFID) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) organizes thematically oriented lecture series under the name "Bayerisches Interreligiöses Kolleg" (BIK). The first lecture in the summer semester of 2021 focused on the found...

Three times a year, BaFID organises English-language conferences with internationally renowned academics. Each conference consists of two sessions dedicated to two central, related concepts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Selected conference reports are online. From 21 to 23 June 2023, speakers ...

Under the heading "Politics and Paradise - Religious and Secular Promises of Salvation as a Political Challenge to Western Democracies", BaFID and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) organized an expert conference at the Orangery in Erlangen. Speakers from FAU, the Central European University, the...