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August 2014

August 20, 2014
Introduce your students to the poetry of Simin Behbahani, Iran's national poet who died this...
August 19, 2014
Here's the distribution of the 1.6 billion Muslims from the Pew Research Center. That number...
August 18, 2014
Here are two very short and engaging summaries of events in the Middle East ideal...
August 17, 2014
Young Muslim women are starting to add color and style to their headscarves, called hijabs....
August 16, 2014
Restored paintings on the Ajanta cave walls in Maharashtra, western India are, according to author...
August 15, 2014
Schools across India recently spent a week learning Sanskrit, India's ancient language, with ties to early...
August 14, 2014
The New Museum in New York City recently opened a new exhibit showcasing contemporary Arabic...
August 13, 2014
Here's a brief but terrific visual guide and timeline explaining the rise of ISIS from...
August 12, 2014
This short clip explains how Nepal plans to turn the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini into...
August 05, 2014
Here are four religion infographics. Each shows the breakdown of the major religions differently. by...
August 04, 2014
It should be no surprise that the largest mosque in the world is in Mecca...
August 03, 2014
If you teach a high school world religions course, you might consider Jeffrey Kripal's terrific...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
Stephen Prothero, the religious scholar and professor, argues that a basic understanding of  world religions...
July 26, 2014
Here's an interesting Buddhist practice reminiscent of the Janist reverence for all life, even small bugs. Tibetan...
July 25, 2014
ISIS, the Islamic state that is taking over much of Iraq and part of Syria,...
July 23, 2014
Thirty countries require their leaders to follow a specific religion. More than half, notes the...
July 22, 2014
Here's an interesting debate for a religions class. Is this teen's smiling selfie at the...
July 21, 2014
Vox explains the causes of the war in this short and excellent clip that you...
July 19, 2014
This map comes from the Global Post which writes that it used the CIA fact book...
July 18, 2014
What does a sociological reading of Islam tell us? Reza Aslan, the author of No god...
July 16, 2014
How fair is the media in its coverage of the Israeli-Gaza conflict?
July 15, 2014
Is the ISIS declaration of a new caliphate in Iraq about religion or power? William...
July 14, 2014
Here's a fascinating animated clip describing the endless fighting in Israel that began over 2000...
July 14, 2014
Rohingya are ethnic Muslims in Myanmar (formerly Burma) which, as you can see from the...
July 13, 2014
Jain monks in the sacred city of Palitana  in northwestern India recently launched a hunger...
July 12, 2014
How do countries challenge religious freedom? What abuses constitute that challenge? Nicholas Kristof argues that...
July 11, 2014
Teaching Hinduism?  The Himalayan Academy, which publishes Hinduism Today magazine, just released a new 23...
July 10, 2014
Students love stories about meditation.  Here's one that suggests that the practice may actually slow...
July 09, 2014
Here's a fascinating news clip from Meet the Press about Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn...
July 08, 2014
A mandala is a Hindu or Buddhist symbol in the shape of a circle. Monks...
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