LOOKING INSIDE AFGHANISTAN - A DISCUSSION SERIES with Rebecca Moore, Ph.D.

Join us this coming week on Wednesday, August 3, for Call of the Minaret: Islam in Afghanistan featuring a discussion with Rebecca Moore, Ph.D. on how Islamic faith has shaped and influenced the culture of Afghanistan. Moore is an Emerita Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She has lectured and published on Jewish and Christian relations in a variety of venues. Her book Jews and Christians in the Life and Thought of Hugh of St. Victor focused on the medieval Christian debt to Jewish biblical commentaries.

Her publications include Peoples Temple and Jonestown in the Twenty-First Century. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), “A Blessing to Each Other”: A New Account of Jewish and Christian Relations, 2021, and Voices of Christianity: A Global Introduction, 2nd edition, 2018.

She is currently a Co-Editor of Elements in New Religious Movements, published by Cambridge University Press.

Her body of work consists of a myriad of professional presentations, books, articles, and a multitude of community lectures and talks.

Moore’s talk will take place at SJIMA at 540 Spring Street, Friday Harbor, WA at 7 pm. Light refreshments will be served and admission is Pay As You Can. This event is graciously sponsored by RaVae Luckhart and Jack Rice, Rob Ray, and the Town of Friday Harbor.