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July 2015

July 27, 2015

Understanding Iran: A Terrrific Summary

Why does the Iranian government continue to criticize the United States after signing the nuclear...

July 24, 2015

Hindu Coming-of Age: Upanayanam

Teaching Hinduism? Here's a great clip showing a Hindu religious coming-of-age ceremony called Upanayanam. The...

July 22, 2015

Fragments of World’s Oldest Quran: CNN Video summary

Here's a great review from CNN of the discovery in Britain of Quran fragments that...

July 22, 2015

Women in Yemen: A Glimmer of Hope

Here's a moving five minute documentary about the fight for women's rights in Yemen from...

July 21, 2015

Buffalo Returns: Lakota Resuregence

Teaching indigenous religions? Here's a fascinating 20 minute documentary about Native Americans on the Pine...

July 19, 2015

Is the Middle East More Secular?

Is the the Middle East becoming more secular? That's what historian, Juan Cole, author of...

July 17, 2015

What is Eid al-Fitr?

What is Eid al-Fitr? How is it celebrated? Time Magazine explains in the short clip above....

July 16, 2015

Videochats Bridge Religious & Cultural Divide

Use Face to Faith to help your students bridge cultural and religious divides. Using videochats,...

July 05, 2015

Online Gallery of Sacred Texts: British Library

The British Library's Online Gallery of Sacred Texts is a terrific resource for studying the major world...

July 03, 2015

Did St. Thomas Found a Church in India?

Did St. Thomas found a chuch in India? That's exactly what the India historian, William...

July 02, 2015

An Iraqi Jon Stewart

Iraqi Ahmed Albasheer fights corruption with comdey. After being kidknapped for 50 days, he decided...

July 01, 2015

Christian Megachurches in Singapore

Did you, like me, think Christian megachurches were an American phenomenon? Joel Ostein's Lakewood Church...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Sorcery & Magic in the Sahel

Studying indigenous African religions? In a beautiful essay for the New York Times, author Anna...

June 17, 2015

What is an Encyclical?

Pope Francis may release an encyclical on climate change tomorrow. But what is an encyclical?...

June 16, 2015

“Flogged for Blogging” in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian Supreme Court recently upheld the public flogging and ten year jail sentence...

June 15, 2015

Women in the Arab Spring: New Documentary

The new documentary is called "The Trials of Spring" and includes six parts highlighting women...

June 14, 2015

Superheroes Inspired by Islam

Here, Naif Al-Mutawa, a clincial pyschologist who began publishing the 99 comic book in 2006...

June 13, 2015

Iranian Women Posting Pictures of Uncovered Hair

Here, Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and feminist, explains why she thinks Iranian women should...

June 05, 2015

New HarvardX Religion Course

Teaching World Religions? Or are you interested in religion? Consider this new massive online course...

June 04, 2015

Halal Things Considered: Jon Stewart

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June 03, 2015

Harvard’s Religious Literacy Project

Teaching a world religions course? Harvard Divinity School’s Literacy Project has some excellent resources including...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Taoism as a Parable: Alan Watts

What is Taoism? Alan Watts, who helped popularize Buddhism in America and wrote many books...

May 26, 2015

A Journey to the Source of the Ganga: Documentary

Here is William Dalrymple's 1998 award winning documentary about his journey to the source of...

May 17, 2015

Who are the Rohingya and Why are They Persecuted

Who are the Rohingya? Why are they persecuted? And who is persecuting them? Who are...

May 14, 2015

Reza Aslan on Religous Violence: The Daily Show

Here, on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Reza Aslan, author of No God but God, and...

May 12, 2015

America’s First Mosque

Where was America's first mosque built? Chicago, New York? No, North Dakota! KFYR-TV explains. When...

May 06, 2015

How do Buddhists, Mormons & Sikhs Pray?

For the National Day of Prayer tomorrow, the Washington Post published an interesting story about...

May 02, 2015

Mongolian Masks & Buddhist Rituals

Mongolian masks are used in a Buddhist ritual called Tsam. In Mongolia, where the ritual...

May 01, 2015

Converting to Judaism

Here's an interesting clip from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly about why some people today choose...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Arranged Marriages & Online Matchmaking in India

In a country in which arranged marriages have been the norm for thousands of years,...

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