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Teaching New Religions at a Liberal Arts College
Introduction I am assistant professor of religious studies at the College of…
Read MoreUsing Memoirs to Learn about NRMs in the “Mini Review Essay”
Genesis of the Idea From my earliest days of teaching, I have…
Read MoreAccepting Ambiguity: A Conscious Style of Course Design and Comparison for Teaching New Religious Movements
For many undergraduates, engaging with the undefined and the ambiguous can be…
Read MoreEverything New is Old Again: New Religious Movements as American Minority Religions
This article situates the teaching of new religious movements (NRMs) within the…
Read MoreMaking Familiar the Unfamiliar: Teaching RLST 2626 “Witchcraft, Paganism, and the New Age,” at the University of Sydney
Australian Law and Non-Mainstream Religions and Spiritualities Australia is a notably secular…
Read MoreField Trips in the Course on New Religions
Introduction In the fall of 1979, I was an MDiv student at…
Read MoreTeaching New and Alternative Religious Movements: Resources
“Forum: Religion and the Biographical Turn.” 2014. Religion an American Culture: A…
Read MoreThe Doniger Affair: Censorship, Self-Censorship, and the Role of the Academy in the Public Understanding of Religion
“Banned!” read headlines last February when, after litigation under India’s blasphemy law,…
Read MoreTeaching Asian American Religions and Religiosities: Guest Editor’s Introduction
According to the 2012 (revised and updated in 2013) Pew Research Center…
Read MoreTeaching Asian Religions from within the Asian American Community
Asian Religions and Social Justice Our eighty-seven-year-old Elder, a third-generation descendent of…
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