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Making 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…
Read MoreTeaching and Learning through the Manzanar Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage as Pedagogy Before studying at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley,…
Read MoreTeaching about Asian American Sacred Spaces at a Catholic College
Encountering Unknown Places “I am nervous going into the temple.” “I am…
Read MoreOn Learning and Teaching the Art of Sho
When offering a course on Buddhist art and aesthetics at the Graduate…
Read MoreAsian American Music and Religion: Scaffolding to Teach Hybridity and to Reduce Anxiety
Utilizing Popular Culture to Teach Asian American Religion Colleagues have often suggested…
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