Why Study Religion?

Last updated on: July 28, 2014 at 3:17 pm by George G. Coe

Why Study Religion? 2014-07-28T15:17:37-05:00 George G. Coe

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School starts in just a few weeks, so I thought that I would start posting some ideas for the first few weeks of religion class. In World Religions, we will begin trying to understand why we study religion. I ask students to read two short essays, one from the Academy of Religion, simply called “Why Study Religion?” and another by James Carroll, called “Why Religion Still Matters.”

Carroll is a Boston Globe columnist and former Catholic priest. We discuss both essays and come up with a list of reasons why we study religion and why it still matters.

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