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August 2013

August 17, 2013
PBS will air on Tuesday, August 20, a new 3 hour documentary on the life...
August 17, 2013
Aboriginal spirituality--the Dreaming--is part of our unit on indigenous religions.  The Dreaming is essentially a...
August 16, 2013
PBS correspondent, Fred De Sam Lazaro, suggests that a shortage of brides in India is...
August 16, 2013
Here is Krista Tippett on Ted Talks discussing compassion. She thinks that we need a...
August 16, 2013
In my World Religions class, we study indigenous religions in Africa, America, and Australia. I...
August 15, 2013
Sam Horowitz’s video of his Bar Mitzvah celebration went viral this week.  In it, Las...
August 15, 2013
Studying the role that myths play in religion? Big Myth has some great animated creation...
August 14, 2013
What role does myth play in helping us to understand and define religion? That's exactly...
August 13, 2013
I saw this cool inforgraphic on another blog. The page is in Russian but the...
August 13, 2013
Familiarize your religion students with the religious diversity in your area. Each year I ask...
August 12, 2013
This is a fascinating story that students will certainly enjoy and could even debate. In...
August 12, 2013
Did a Missouri priest perform a miracle and help save a 19 year old girl?...
August 12, 2013
How do the scholars define religion? Marx called it opium of the people.” Freud called...
August 11, 2013
These are Raelians, if you did not know. They want to rehabilitate the swastika, not...
August 11, 2013
School starts in just a few weeks, so I thought that I would start posting...
August 10, 2013
Ancestor worship.  Both the Japanese and the Chinese venerate their ancestors and the tradition dates...
August 08, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry recognized the importance of religion in politics and  foreign policy...
August 08, 2013
The Royal Society, a fellowship of some the most eminent scientists, has a great online...
August 08, 2013
Eid al-Fitr is a two-day festival that marks the end of Ramadan for Muslims around...
August 06, 2013
People will do a lot things for faith. Here, the BBC reports, four Buddhist pilgrims...
August 04, 2013
The role of women in the development of early Christianity  is a question we consider...
August 03, 2013
Great pictures of Ramadan in Jerusalem at the blog, The Electronic Intifada. A resident of...
August 02, 2013
Brain scans of experienced mediators might help those of us who are new to meditation...
August 01, 2013
Muslims number 1.6 billion and make up 26% of the world's population, according to the...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
Thanks for all the page views!  We just exceeded 15,000 after just seven months. By...
July 29, 2013
Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, went on...
July 29, 2013
Studying Islam? Here's a great primer on Sharia Law, what it is and what is...
July 28, 2013
Fox news anchor, Lauren Green, grilled Reza Aslan, author of   "Zealot: The Life and...
July 27, 2013
Journalist Mehdi Hasan defends Islam as a peaceful religion in this awesome debate at Oxford...
July 26, 2013
Here's a great essay about the value of the Bhagavad Gita today, written by Charles...
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