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<DIV>Dear FUUSM friends,</DIV>
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<DIV>This webinar invitation arrived in my inbox this morning, and I thought it
might be of interest to some of you. If the event was planned for November, I’d
have submitted it for inclusion in <EM>The Confluence</EM>, but since it is in
October, email to fuusm-l is my only way of contacting you. </DIV>
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<DIV>If you’re not interested in a webinar on the rise of religious nationalism,
delete! I promise, I will try hard to avoid flooding your email inbox with
forwarded messages from UUA and others. But this one strikes me as important and
interesting. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Dawn
Hewitt<BR>Office assistant, aka church lady<BR>First Unitarian Universalist
Society of Marietta, Ohio</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=appalachiancluster@lists.cerguua.org>Beth Casebolt via
AppalachianCluster</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 13, 2022 10:27 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [AppalachianCluster] Webinar Opportunity</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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may be interested in your congregation. You can learn more at the IARF US
website at <A href="https://www.iarfus.org/">https://www.iarfus.org/</A></DIV>
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Rise of Religious Nationalism</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN
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the Worlds Two Largest
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2022 | 7 pm
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style="FONT-SIZE: 17px">Please join the U.S. Chapter of the
International Association for Religious Freedom as we explore this
timely issue in a zoom forum on October 27th at 7 pm Eastern. (Those
interested in attending should email their request to
<A>schwichs@gmail.com</A> with their name and congregation - the
zoom link will be emailed before the event). The Constitutions of
both India and the United States guarantee their citizens' rights to
religious liberty and freedom of conscience and defend the rights of
all denominations to equal treatment within their laws.
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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our two largest democracies are confronting the rise of religious
nationalisms that would privilege Hindus in India and Christians in
the United States over other religions and philosophies.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 17px">Our two presenters are both involved in
confronting the rise of religious nationalism in their home
countries. They </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 17px">will discuss
how religious nationalism is manifesting itself, how those policies
are affecting practitioners of other religions or philosophies, and
how these forms of religious authoritarianism are being countered
within Indian and American
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provides an inclusive Hindu American public voice and advocates for
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of Pittsburg, CA, and as the </SPAN><SPAN
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the Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County (Bay Area, CA) which
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