Add To Watchlist

RELIGIOUS-STUDIES

The Vine
When those who teach can't do
Source: Daily Kos

I know, I know. I messed up the old saying. But I did it on purpose. It's one thing to say that those who can't do, teach. And while it's derogatory and untrue and everything else, I've been thinking about the relationship between doing and teaching about over the past few weeks.

Religious studies at FIU: Salvation, for now

The Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University is safe -- at least, for now.

Texas Headed for Constitutional Train Wreck Says Religious Studies Chairman
Source: The Houston Chronicle

"I predict we're headed for a constitutional train wreck," said Mark Chancey, chairman of the religious studies department at Southern Methodist University.

The Place of Personal Faith in the Classroom
Source: chronicle.com

Many religious-studies professors consider personal references to one's own faith to be out of place in an academic context.

Palestine: a policy of deliberate blindness
Source: Le Monde diplomatique

Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now obvious.

Faith on the Quad
Source: Inside Higher Ed

A draft report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities calls for increased study of religion in all American colleges and universities.

Religious studies and prayer meetings at home OK
Source: Alliance Defense Fund

Why was there a question about this? Where are we headed, when religious meetings in our homes are questioned??

This area needs news. Click here to seed the vine