New School Trains in Different Religions
21 September 2011
Claremont Lincoln University in California is a new graduate school made up of Christian, Muslim and Jewish institutions
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Claremont Lincoln University in California is a new graduate school for religious education. It hopes to change the way religious leaders in the United States are educated.
The school will train Muslim, Jewish and Christian clergy together. Administrators think this is the first "interreligious university" of its kind.
The university is east of Los Angeles. It offers master's degree programs in interreligious studies and Muslim leadership.
Three institutions founded Claremont Lincoln. One of them is the Claremont School of Theology, where the university is located. The other founders are the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, and the Islamic Center of Southern California.
Students from one institution may take courses at the others. The Islamic school is just beginning its programs. The founders hope to begin training imams sometime next year.
David Lincoln is chairman of the board of Claremont Lincoln. He and his wife, Joan, donated fifty million dollars to the university.
DAVID LINCOLN: “The religions will be promoting peace in the world and not fighting each other. In a lot of places now they fight each other, and if the religions could encourage solutions to the problems, then the problems would be solved and we’d all be better off.”
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