- Author
- Diamond, Miriam Rosalyn
- Publisher
- New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
- ISBN
- 9781581072013
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12086/abstract
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Religious Literacy: The Project
Appendices:
A. Wingspread Declaration
B. Institute on Religion in Curriculum and Culture Guiding Questions
Part One - Why Religious
ch. 1 Religious Literacy across the Disciplines
ch. 2 A More Perfect Union: Religion, public life, and higher education
Part Two - Campus Initiatives
Section One - Course-specific projects
ch. 3 A Module on Islam
ch. 4 Environmental Stewardship: A dialog between religion and the environment
Appendix: Course Syllabus (Excerpts)
ch. 5 An Online Course in Religious Literacy
Appendices:
A. Religious Literacy for the Public and Professions Sample Lessons
B. Religious Literacy for the Public and Professions Sample Case Study: Instructions and writing prompts
C. Pre- and Post-test Results
Section Two - Co-curricular/Integrated Learning
ch. 6 Creating Interfaith & Social Justice Co-Curricular Programs
ch. 7 Human Moral Development Living Learning Community: A brief biography
Section Three - University-Wide/Interdisciplinary Programs
ch. 8 Monotheistic Religions and the Public Square
Appendix: Course Syllabus
ch. 9 Responsible Belief: Students in a pervasively-Christian university engaging in interfaith dialogue
Appendices:
A. Fall 2008 Interfaith Dialogue Series
B. Sample Interfaith Project 1
C. Sample Interfaith Project 2
ch. 10 "Let Everyone Remain Free": The Difficult Dialogues Project at LaGuardia Community College
Appendix: Agenda for Conversation Circle Sessions
ch. 11 Development of a Religious Studies Program at Portland State University
Appendix: Proposal for a New Academic Program
Part Three - Moving Forward
ch. 12 Religious Literacy and Public Schools
Afterword - Lessons Learned, Looking Ahead
In June of 2008, teams from diverse campuses across the country came together to explore and create programs aimed at enhancing the religious literacy of their students. The Society for Values in Higher Education sponsored this Institute for Religion on Campus and Community, with funding from the Jesse Ball duPont foundation. This publication is a description of the diverse curricular and co-curricular projects developed at these institutions.
Miriam Diamond and her colleagues in the Society for Values in Higher Education have produced a wonderful little volume that deals with a major contemporary problem in higher education: how to foster religious literacy across the American academic landscape. This is a vexed (and vexing) problem in the American academy, and the authors have made a major contribution – which continues the tradition of Bellah, Wuthnow, and Prothero. To quote contributor Nancy Thomas, “American civil society seems less than civil”. (From the Publisher)
Miriam Diamond and her colleagues in the Society for Values in Higher Education have produced a wonderful little volume that deals with a major contemporary problem in higher education: how to foster religious literacy across the American academic landscape. This is a vexed (and vexing) problem in the American academy, and the authors have made a major contribution – which continues the tradition of Bellah, Wuthnow, and Prothero. To quote contributor Nancy Thomas, “American civil society seems less than civil”. (From the Publisher)