An Introduction to the Heart of the World's Religions
10 Week Evening Course – begins 7th February 2011

Mondays 7-9pm 7th February 2011  – 11th April 2011
St John's Church Hall, Princes Street, Edinburgh. 

Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Paganism, Sikhism, Jainism & Zoroastrianism

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The 2011 series, using a mixture of discussion & presentation, invites us over 10 weeks to explore some of the world’s major faith traditions. It offers learning for personal use or professional training. Each session of the course will be lead by a speaker from within the Faith Tradition being explored; this particular approach has received very positive feedback from course participants.

Each session will include :

• The Basic Concepts of each faith tradition using a structure based on the ‘Model of Religion’ by Prof Frank Whaling.

• What for each speaker is the Heart of their faith tradition & its contribution to One Scotland.

• A brief experience of a spiritual / ritual practice meditation from each tradition

This series has preparatory reading for each week. The Basic Concepts will be introduced using the “Model of Religion” by Prof Frank Whaling, The Emeritus Professor of the Study of Religion at Edinburgh University, which Prof. Whaling will introduce on the first night of the series.

“A well structured, multi-faceted insight into a number of faith traditions that proved excellent value for money.” course participant

“Fantastic introduction to the core concepts and beliefs of many of the world’s religions. Provides a good grounding & understanding to all the many religions which make up our society today.”  course participant

This series costs:
£75 Individual (£55 conc)

The course fees also includes refreshments and the preparatory reading material.