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Category: Religion
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How do you bring “sensual religion” to an online course? S. Brent Plate shares his experience of creating his first MOOC–Massive Open Online Course–based on his book A History of Religion in 5-1/2 Objects.
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In an excerpt from AT HOME IN EXILE, Alan Wolfe warns that, although Islamic anti-Semitism can occur, we shouldn’t let it derail efforts to coexist.
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According to Susan Katz Miller, author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, there is no single label that fits all interfaith families. And that’s a good thing.
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As President Obama prepares to again increase the number of troops in Iraq, the lessons in “soul repair” developed by Drs. Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini may be more critical than ever.
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Louise Steinman, author of THE CROOKED MIRROR: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation, reflects on the opening of Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the evolving nature of Jewish remembrance in Poland.
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Fifty-five years after the original US publication of Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl’s timeless wisdom has helped generations of readers cope with hardship and overcome adversity.
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In an excerpt from his latest book, AT HOME IN EXILE, political scientist and religion scholar Alan Wolfe examines why he prefers “a Judaism that is special but not chosen to one that is chosen but not special.”
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Susan Katz Miller, author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, provides some valuable resources for interfaith families celebrating Yom Kippur.
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Today, on the 145th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, we look back to an historic meeting in 1935, when the idea of nonviolent civil disobedience passed from India’s spiritual leader to Howard Thurman, the man who would deeply influence an entire generation of black ministers and civil rights leaders—among them Martin Luther King Jr.
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