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Religion and American Popular Culture

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Andrew Monteith
Institution: Elon University

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 2019

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A 2019 course by Andrew Monteith at Elon University analyzes "the ways that movies, television, sports, novels, and other types of popular culture can shape, cultivate, interact with, and even serve as religion."

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Islamic Movements and Modernities

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Peter Gottschalk
Institution: Wesleyan University

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2020

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A 2020 course by Peter Gottschalk at Weslyan University "endeavors . . .To understand the dynamics of specific Islamic movements;. . . To appreciate the diversity among Muslims and their socio-political contexts; and. . . To critically explore and question the meaning of 'modernity' and consider the possibility of multiple modernities."

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Teaching Religion

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Course Level-Format: graduate
Instructor: Steven Weitzman
Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2020

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A 2020 course by Steven Weitzman at the University of Pennsylvania asks "What is the value of studying religion in a higher education setting? How does one bridge between a critical approach to religion and the beliefs of one’s students? The course will broach these and other questions through readings and discussions meant to help you think through the challenges of teaching about religion to college students, and will give you opportunities to develop your own approach to them."

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Womanist Theological Ethics: Deconstructing White Supremacist Space

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Course Level-Format: graduate
Instructor: Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
Institution: Seminary of the Southwest

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 2019

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A 2019 course by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan at Seminary of the Southwest "engages multiple texts, scripture, literature, film, music, socio-political movements, and art to explore the violent system that grounds theological, psycho-socio-economic, and political oppression: white supremacist patriarchal misogyny, and the resulting intergenerational trauma, from a Womanist theological ethics perspective."

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Faith, Reason, and Culture

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Course Level-Format: undergraduate
Instructor: Christy Lane Hearlson
Institution: Villanova University

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2019

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A 2019 course by Christy Lang Hearlson at Villanova University adopts a practical theology approach ("a way of doing theology that attends to lived reality and practice, engages in interdisciplinary dialogue, and seeks to cultivate practical wisdom for life") to critical issues of contemporary life using the case study of "consumerism." The course has "a particular (but not exclusive) focus on Roman Catholicism."

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