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<\/p>\nCelebrate Diversity emails share events and resources related to recognition days, heritage months, and spiritual seasonal observances in celebration of Emerson’s diverse and unique community. Content is crafted by staff partnering across Community, Culture, & Belonging, Marketing & Communications, Academic Affairs, and Campus Life.<\/p>\n
Our first email of the 2025-2026 academic year notes many meaningful religious, spiritual, and faith-based traditions that are observed and celebrated during the fall.<\/p>\n
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Please consider adding the Multifaith Observance Google Calendar<\/a> to your personal account. It displays information on important religious and spiritual dates, as well as restrictions to note when planning campus events, course deadlines, meetings, or programs. This resource collaboration from Community, Culture, & Belonging<\/a> and the\u00a0Center of Spiritual Life<\/a> is\u00a0based on resources from Harvard Divinity School. Please remember that our\u00a0Religious Observance Policy<\/a> exists so that holidays can be recognized wholly by members of our community. During fall, many important times of worship, celebration, and observance are held among many faiths, cultures, and traditions. We encourage you to learn more below, and consider what personal or community practices you might want to engage with during this season of change.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"The](\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/celebrate-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/10\/multifaith-observance-google-calendar-_5_-300x169.png\")
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\nSEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER<\/h2>\n
\nMawlid-an-Nabi: September 5<\/h3>\n
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A Muslim celebration of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad withfestivals, prayer services, recitations of poetry and litanies, as well as religious gatherings.<\/li>\n
\nAutumn Equinox (Mabon): September 22<\/h3>\n
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During the autumnal equinox, when the sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are nearly equal in length, Pagans observe Mabon with a focus on gratitude, balance, and preparation for winter.<\/li>\n
\nRosh Hashanah
\nEvening of September 22 \u2013 September 24<\/h3>\n\n
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The Jewish New Year is a celebration of feasts, candle lighting, and blowing the Shofar. It begins the ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur.<\/li>\n
\nNavratri & Dussehra
\nSeptember 22 – October 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Navratri is a nine-night Hindu festival honoring the divine feminine, with unique traditions across regions and cultures. It culminates in Dussehra, also known as Vijayadashmi, celebrating the victory of good over evil.<\/li>\n
\nYom Kippur
\nEvening of October 1 \u2013 October 2<\/h3>\n\n
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The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, is the holiest day of the year, observed with 25 hours of fasting and prayer.<\/li>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\nMid-Autumn Festival
\nOctober 6<\/h3>\n\n
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Also known as the Moon or Mooncake Festival, this major holiday in China is widely celebrated across East and Southeast Asia, particularly among Buddhist and Taoist\u00a0communities.<\/li>\n\n
\nSukkot
\nEvening of October 6 \u2013 October 13<\/h3>\n\n
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Named after the temporary huts (sukkot<\/em>) the Israelites lived in during their 40 years in the desert, Sukkot is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals in the Jewish calendar.<\/li>\n
\n<\/div>\nDiwali
\nOctober 20<\/h3>\n\n
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This Festival of Lights, Diwali, is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains with food, music, and lights.<\/li>\n
\nBirth of the B\u00e1b & Birth of Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h
\nOctober 22 and October 23<\/h3>\n\n
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These twin holy days mark the births of the B\u00e1b (the Gate<\/em>) and Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h (the Glory of God<\/em>), the two central figures of the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed faith.<\/li>\n
\nSamhain
\nOctober 31 – November 1<\/h3>\n\n
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A Pagan festival in the ancient Celtic tradition, Samhain marks the end of the harvest season, when the boundary between the physical and spirit worlds was believed to grow thin, allowing spirits to walk the Earth.<\/li>\n\n
\n<\/div>\nAll Saints\u2019 Day & All Souls\u2019 Day: November 1 and November 2<\/h3>\n
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All Saints\u2019 Day, a Christian observance, is celebrated on November 1 in the Western Church and on the Sunday after Pentecost in the Eastern Church, honoring all saints, both canonized and unrecognized. All Souls\u2019 Day, observed the following day in the West, focuses on remembering all the departed.<\/li>\n