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December 2015

December 30, 2015
Terrorism has increased intolerance and even bigotry. A Sikh man was beaten by two men...
December 19, 2015
The recent controversy over the closing of schools in Virginia's Augusta County over a world...
December 14, 2015
Today, my students made personal Buddhist mandalas. You can see two samples above. A mandala...
December 09, 2015
Watch what happens when people think they are hearing passages from the Quran, but it's...
December 06, 2015
Here are some good resources for the eight day Jewish festival that began today and...
December 01, 2015
Here's a thoughtful and interesting argument about the role of religion in terrorism by one...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
Last week my U.S. high school students discussed culture and values with their peers in...
November 15, 2015
Here are two great stories about the crisis in Thai Buddhism, one from PBS Religion...
November 11, 2015
The recent elections in Myanmar did not change the status of the Rohingya Muslim minority. Indeed,...
November 08, 2015
Teaching Hinduism? The Bhagavad Gita is a central Hindu text, maybe as important as the...

October 2015

October 25, 2015
In a fascinating story for Religion and Politics, Amina Steinfels, a scholar at Mount Holyoke...
October 18, 2015
The Ramayana is one of India's most popular epics. Versions appear in literature, plays, movies,...

September 2015

September 29, 2015
Does studying about another religion contradict your own faith? That's what one Atlanta parent thinks. He told...
September 26, 2015
Here's a great animated  map that shows the spread of Christianity from its inception to today...
September 13, 2015
Here are three great short documentaries about Hinduism, Christianity and Islam from the point of...
September 12, 2015
Can religious freedom justify refusing to follow the law? Kim Davis, a Kentucky state official...
September 10, 2015
Do clothes like the Indian sari or the Afghan burqa justify empire? British missionaries in...
September 06, 2015
What similarities do Muslims and Christians share? Amer Aziz, an officer of The Ahmadiyya Muslim...

August 2015

August 30, 2015
BBC IWONDER GUIDES BBC developed IWonder interactive guides in 2014. The guides "explore a range...
August 24, 2015
An Indian High Court recently ruled that elderly Jains could not commit ritual suicide called...
August 20, 2015
Philosopher, Alain de Botton, founded a company in which he surveys some of the great...
August 17, 2015
John Hull, the great Australian religious teacher and writer, died yesterday.  Among the many things for which...
August 16, 2015
Wow! Not one, not two, but four major American museums have exhibits of Islamic art!...
August 16, 2015
Here's a terrific TedEd clip on how Islamic artists use geometry to develop their designs....
August 14, 2015
Beliefnet has a great story about the hijbab and some of the misconceptions about it....
August 12, 2015
Here's the trailer for a new feature film about Buddhism called Golden Kingdom that will...
August 10, 2015
Muslims believe that the words of the Quaran were first spoken to the Prophet Muhammad by...
August 06, 2015
The University of Oxford has digitized at least 100 paintings of Hindu gods that were...
August 03, 2015
The Pacific Asian Museum in Pasadena, California has a terrific interactive web exhibit called Visions...

July 2015

July 31, 2015
If the sacred texts of many religions overwhelm you, then take a look at some...
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