Guest Post: Prof. Rev. ‘Public Friend’ Felipe Ribeiro, Latin American Permanent Forum on Religious Teaching (CLAECIR FONAPER), Interfaith Religious Teaching Association of Brazil (ASSINTEC), Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA), Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC) Since its colonization, America has been a multi-religious continent. When operating at their best, these various religious and belief traditions have […]
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See What Takes Place: Virtual Reality in Teaching About Religious Rituals
Guest Post: John Soboslai, Assistant Professor of Religion, Montclair State University In the course evaluations from my Understanding Religion classes, students routinely wrote “this class should include more videos.” After initially shrugging off the request as students simply wanting to watch movies, I began to recognize the pedagogic insight behind their words. Students’ lives are, […]
Religious Literacy: An Important Component of International Mindedness
Guest Blog: Samuel J. Richards International schools often promote international mindedness. This fuzzy phrase is ubiquitous but oftentimes not well-defined. The definition used by the widely-influential International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) has changed over time. At its core, international mindedness is an aspirational call for students and faculty to recognize our interrelatedness as diverse nations and […]
Finding Diverse Ways to Deepen My Religious Life at University
Guest Blog: Dhanesh Rishi Budhram This article was first published by Hinduism Today on 6/30/22. In conjunction with the author, we have added short definitions, numerous links, and section headers to help non-Hindu readers more fully appreciate the richness of this post. I am a first-generation Hindu-American whose parents are from Guyana. My earlier ancestors […]