Religion & Sexuality Film Series: “A Jihad for Love”

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The roads we travel in life are interesting and varied. One of the more complicated aspects happens at the intersection of Religion and Sexuality. Join UCF Libraries and the Religion & Cultural Studies Program for a series of films that examine what happens when religion and sexuality meet from the perspective of three different traditions.

Discussion facilitated by Dr. Michael Muhammad Knight and Dr. Cyrus Zargar

“A Jihad for Love”

 Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world's second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.

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