Students on an interfaith trip

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Offices and Services

Interfaith learning at Davidson enables students, staff, and faculty to cultivate connections to particular faith traditions and to learn about the beliefs and practices of others.

Such learning is an important part of a liberal arts education in our pluralistic world. These experiences equip students with the skills and knowledge to practice informed, judicious interfaith leadership on campus and beyond.

Better Together

Through Better Together, students from many religious and philosophical traditions learn from each other through dinner discussions, lectures and celebrations of diverse holy days on campus. Better Together also collaborates with other student organizations to promote spiritual and religious diversity in a spirit of mutual understanding and respect.

Fall Break Trip

The Interfaith Social Justice Fall Break Pilgrimage – Beloved Community in a World House –lives into three questions and their intersections. What is community? What is faith? What is justice? Inspired by the visionary and prophetic writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as other visionary practitioners of ahimsa and beloved community such as Mahatma Gandhi and Thích Nhất Hạnh, we visit and practice with faith communities and develop our own expressions of beloved community together in a shared living environment. This trip has been held annually in Atlanta, GA, and may expand to other cities in the coming years.

For more information, please contact Associate Chaplain Ivan Mayerhofer at ivmayerhofer@davidson.edu.

Spiritual Diversity Dinner Club

The Spiritual Diversity Dinner Club is an opportunity for students to practice interfaith dialogue with a small community of peers. Over the course of a semester, students explore themes of identity, leadership, and community together. Recent participants have identified with many backgrounds, including: Atheist, Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Ismaili Muslim, Jewish, non-denominational Christian, Presbyterian, Secular Humanist, Shi'a Muslim, Sunni Muslim, and Zoroastrian.

For more information contact Associate Chaplain Ivan Mayerhofer at ivmayerhofer@davidson.edu.