Guest Blog: Elsa Kunz, Graduate Student, Harvard Divinity School Overview Covid-19 impacted religious communities throughout the world. Grounded in the cultural studies approach to religion, advocated by The Program for Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, this lesson aims to provide students an opportunity to explore the impact of Covid-19 on Muslim communities […]
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Religious Literacy in French Classes: Changing Understandings of Laïcité
Guest Blog: Elsa Kunz, Graduate Student, Harvard Divinity School Cultivating religious literacy goes beyond the social studies classroom. In fact, world language teachers have some of the greatest opportunities to incorporate the academic study of religion into their lessons. Using a cultural studies approach and the framework from Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity [...]
Religion All Around: Engaging Students with the Category of Religion
Guest Blog: Elsa Kunz, Graduate Student, Harvard Divinity School The category of "religion" is a challenging one, and many students arrive in the classroom with unexplored assumption about what "counts" as religion. For many students, "religion" is an isolatable category that occurs in designated spaces, places, and people. Yet the reality is that religion does [...]
Sanctuary Secrets: Learning About the Colonies Through Worship Spaces
Guest Blog: Meredith Henne Baker British colonization of the Atlantic Coast was widespread in 17th century America. However, that colonization was not entirely uniform. Environmental, cultural, and demographic factors all influenced the character of the colonies in different regions along the coast. In this lesson plan, comparisons between the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies […]