{"id":11245,"date":"2022-03-09T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entest.urd.ac.ir\/?page_id=11245"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:10:04","slug":"about-urd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/about-urd\/","title":{"rendered":"About URD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Religions and Denominations is an international, non-profit and non-governmental university that provides academic education in the field of world religions.<\/p>\n<p>This university is the first and only university specializing in religions and denominations in Iran and the world, which, while recognizing religions and denominations, insists upon interaction and dialogue with their followers based on commonalities. The main goal of the university is to train human resources experts in the field of religions and denominations, as well as research in this field in the direction of human solidarity, strengthening peace, and reducing human suffering by expanding spirituality and ethics. Therefore, various topics related to religions are taught in this university with different and interdisciplinary approaches in many different fields.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Religions and Denomination has the largest number of students among non-profit universities in Iran. In addition to Iranian students, about 12,000 foreign scholars from 35 nationalities are studying in this university. So far, about five hundred high-ranking scientific, cultural and political delegations from 52 countries have visited this university, and many memorandums of understanding have been established between them and the University of Religions and denominations. This university organizes numerous scientific trips to different parts of the world for its students to learn about different religions and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>University of Religions and Denominations has defined the vision of the next ten years to reach the university rank of the most prominent university in Iran, one of the top five universities in the region and one of the well-known universities in the world. This university aims to be a reference in the recognition, development and deepening of studies of religions and denominations, training of scientific elites, religious thinkers and social reformers, and playing a role in scientific assemblies and inter-religious and inter-denomination dialogues in Iran and the world. One of the important goals of the University of Religions and denominations is to train graduates who can play a role in understanding and finding solutions to religious and denominations challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Religions and Denominations is an international, non-profit and non-governmental university that provides academic education in the field of world religions. This university is the first and only university specializing in religions and denominations in Iran and the world, which, while recognizing religions and denominations, insists upon interaction and dialogue with their followers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"faculties":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-11245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculties","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculties?post=11245"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urd.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}