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July 2015

July 27, 2015
Why does the Iranian government continue to criticize the United States after signing the nuclear...
July 24, 2015
Teaching Hinduism? Here's a great clip showing a Hindu religious coming-of-age ceremony called Upanayanam. The...
July 22, 2015
Here's a great review from CNN of the discovery in Britain of Quran fragments that...
July 22, 2015
Here's a moving five minute documentary about the fight for women's rights in Yemen from...
July 21, 2015
Teaching indigenous religions? Here's a fascinating 20 minute documentary about Native Americans on the Pine...
July 19, 2015
Is the the Middle East becoming more secular? That's what historian, Juan Cole, author of...
July 17, 2015
What is Eid al-Fitr? How is it celebrated? Time Magazine explains in the short clip above....
July 16, 2015
Use Face to Faith to help your students bridge cultural and religious divides. Using videochats,...
July 05, 2015
The British Library's Online Gallery of  Sacred Texts is a terrific resource for studying the major world...
July 03, 2015
Did St. Thomas found a chuch in India? That's exactly what the India historian, William...
July 02, 2015
Iraqi Ahmed Albasheer fights corruption with comdey. After being kidknapped for 50 days, he decided...
July 01, 2015
Did you, like me, think Christian megachurches were an American phenomenon? Joel Ostein's Lakewood Church...

June 2015

June 27, 2015
Studying indigenous African religions? In a beautiful essay for the New York Times, author Anna...
June 17, 2015
Pope Francis may release an encyclical on climate change tomorrow. But what is an encyclical?...
June 16, 2015
The Saudi Arabian Supreme Court recently upheld the public flogging and ten year jail sentence...
June 15, 2015
The new documentary is called "The Trials of Spring" and includes six parts highlighting women...
June 14, 2015
Here, Naif Al-Mutawa, a clincial pyschologist who began publishing the 99 comic book in 2006...
June 13, 2015
Here, Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and feminist, explains why she thinks Iranian women should...
June 05, 2015
Teaching World Religions? Or are you interested in religion? Consider this new massive online course...
June 04, 2015
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June 03, 2015
Teaching a world religions course? Harvard Divinity School’s Literacy Project has some excellent resources including...

May 2015

May 31, 2015
What is Taoism? Alan Watts, who helped popularize Buddhism in America and wrote many books...
May 26, 2015
Here is William Dalrymple's 1998 award winning documentary about his journey to the source of...
May 17, 2015
Who are the Rohingya? Why are they persecuted? And who is persecuting them? Who are...
May 14, 2015
Here, on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Reza Aslan, author of No God but God, and...
May 12, 2015
Where was America's first mosque built? Chicago, New York? No, North Dakota! KFYR-TV explains. When...
May 06, 2015
For the National Day of Prayer tomorrow, the Washington Post published an interesting story about...
May 02, 2015
Mongolian masks are used in a Buddhist ritual called Tsam. In Mongolia, where the ritual...
May 01, 2015
Here's an interesting clip from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly about why some people today choose...

April 2015

April 24, 2015
In a country in which arranged marriages have been the norm for thousands of years,...
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