After college I was split between wanting to pursue an academic
career in religious studies and wanting to have an artistic career in creative writing.
He also holds a diploma in Human Resource Management from the Institute of Commercial Management, U.K., a post-graduate Diploma in Applied Theology from the University of Manchester, U.K., and a Master of Arts Degree
in Religious Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon.
Jerrod has a Bachelor of
Arts in Religious Studies from Findlay University and diploma of Biblical Studies from Winebrenner Theological Seminary.
Today I teach simultaneously at Garrett - Evangelical Theological Seminary, an institution that amalgamates the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren traditions, and at the graduate
program in religious studies at Mundelein College, a Roman Catholic institution.
The author of Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity, she holds an
M.A. in religious studies from Arizona State University and has written for The Atlantic website, Books and Culture, Paste, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Christianity Today, Beliefnet and other publications.
A New Yorker with a
Ph.D. in religious studies focusing on medieval Kabbalists, Sagerman continually relates his studio practice to his engagement with Jewish mysticism.
I have a Masters in Theological Studies from Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary, as well as a
Diploma in Religious Studies and Ministry from McGill University in Montreal.
I'm ok with teaching creationism
in a religious studies class or even a history class but not a science classroom where scientific method is used.
Lacking any fundamental conflict to overcome, the process paradigm is less likely to spawn theories of religion that commit the functionalist fallacy so frequently
found in religious studies.3
See a parallel account in Cobb's «Intellectual Autobiography,» Religious Studies Review 19 (1993): 9 - 11; and the reviews of his contributions by Delwin Brown and Linell Cady
in Religious Studies Review 19 (1993): 11 - 17.
A senior
lecturer in religious studies and affiliate faculty in bioengineering, she teaches courses on ethics including health care ethics and ethics and biotechnology.
A selection of 34 - tried and tested - colourful and captivating pictures that will engage your students and motivate them to engage
in Religious Studies lessons.
Kim received a
B.A. in Religious Studies from Agnes Scott College and a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education from Georgia State University.
Just as in political science classes teachers challenged a student's assumption that because his father was a Republican, so he should be, and just as in economics classes professors challenged a student's assumption that capitalism is without question the best of all economic systems, so
in religious studies teachers challenged students to examine their received traditions concerning Christianity.
Samuel Noble is a researcher in medieval Arab Orthodox Christianity, a Ph.D.
candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University, co-editor of The Orthodox Church in the Arab World 700-1700 and co-translator of Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516 - 1831.
Such terms may be alien to the secular mindset, but they fit perfectly with the aims of the current Ofqual subject
criteria in religious studies, which are to enable students to engage with religious beliefs intellectually and respond personally, and to enhance their spiritual and moral development.
There is a need to draw attention to the bias and hidden assumptions contained in the text books — and not
just in religious studies, but in subjects across the curriculum where political indoctrination is taking place.
One may observe this feature in almost any college classroom, not
only in religious studies, but within the humanities in general.
Wiebe, then, need not be so suspicious of
theology in religious studies — a now largely pluralist science that profits from the presence of dissident, adversarial voices.
I am also thankful that I have spent the last 20 years at the University of Chicago Divinity School, an institution noted (or infamous) for its concern for
method in religious studies, history of religion, philosophy and theology.
While in many cases independent schools have expanded their
offerings in religious studies, the focus is increasingly on how they teach and what they teach, through example, through the establishment of a humane environment, and through, as one teacher put it, the «atmosphere of expectation» they promote.
According to one Pol Pot biographer, Dr. Ian Harris, a
Reader in Religious Studies at the University College of St. Martin: «In one of his early writings Pol Pot wrote approvingly that the «democratic regime will bring back the Buddhist moralism because our great leader Buddha was the first to have taught [democracy].»