This guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students' school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a variety of religions as well as atheist practices. You will find that these practices as assets to be cultivated.
This guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students' school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a variety of religions as well as atheist practices. You will find that these practices as assets to be cultivated.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Nichols specializes in Asian religions and religion in popular culture. He has published a monograph on Buddhist mythology and another monograph on the Marvel comic cinematic universe as seen through the lens of religious studies. Peter W. Williams is an internationally renowned expert on American religions, with a particular focus on material culture and religious architecture. He has published a monograph on popular religion in America, another book on religion and architecture in America, and a reference work on America's religions that has been a perennial source of information for many different audiences. Liz Wilson has published on South Asian forms of sexual regulation, especially celibacy, South Asian modes of death and dying, and how Asian foodways and modes of religious dress have been adopted and altered in Western contexts. She has published a monograph on how gender figures into Buddhist literature about meditation, two edited volumes on Asian religious practices, and a co-authored textbook on religion, gender, and the body. Wilson teaches a course on religion and law that deals with case law on non-Christian religious expression in U.S. schools.
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1. Why Care About Religion? Principles of Religious Literacy 2. African Diaspora Religions 3. Atheist, Agnostic, Humanist, and Anti-religious Groups 4. Baha'I 5. Buddhism 6. Chinese Religions: Falun Gong 7. Chinese Religions: Traditional Chinese religions 8. Christianity: Overview 9. Christianity: Amish, Mennonite, and other Anabaptist-descended churches 10. Christianity: Anglican and Episcopal 11. Christianity: Baptist 12. Christianity: Black Churches 13. Christianity: Christian Science 14. Christianity: Jehovah's Witness 15. Christianity: Latter-day Saints 16. Christianity: Lutheran 17. Christianity: Methodist, Moravian, Wesleyan, and Holiness churches 18. Christianity: Orthodox 19. Christianity: Pentecostal and Holiness 20. Christianity: Presbyterian and other Reformed churches 21. Christianity: Quaker (Friends) 22. Christianity: Restorationist (Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ) 23. Christianity: Roman and Eastern Catholic 24. Christianity: Seventh-Day Adventist 25. Christianity: Unitarian Universalist 26. Hinduism: Overview 27. Hinduism: Shaiva 28. Hinduism: Shakta 29. Hinduism: Vaishnava 30. Islam: Overview 31. Islam: Nation of Islam 32. Islam: Shia 33. Islam: Sunni 34. Jainism 35. Judaism: Overview 36. Judaism: Conservative 37. Judaism: Orthodox 38. Judaism: Reform 39. Neopaganism 40. North American Indigenous religions 41. Scientology 42. Sikhism 43. Zoroastrianism
