Religious studies

THE USE OF SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE: A STUDY ON COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA. Chia, Ogheneovo Esther Abstract This article reports on the impact of teaching and learning of social studies education on religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence among students in colleges of education in Kaduna state. Participants were drawn from the Federal College of Education Zaria and College of Education, Gidan Waya in

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology, brings into focus the religious and theological dimensions of Ralph Ellison’s authorship. Against reductive tendencies of materialist and secular accounts of racial identity, Harriss argues that Ellison’s understanding of race, characterized as an invisible theology in a secular age, makes possible a reconsideration of the relation between race, religion, and secularism. In order to bring the religious aspects of racial life into view, Harriss proceeds along two

Rebecca McKenney Introduction to Comparative Religion Mr. Hyrcza 10 November 2016 Analysis of Religious Literacy In Stephen Prothero’s Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008) 1 – 372, Prothero discusses how the American society was once a religiously literate nation, how we became religiously illiterate, and how (if willing) we can become religiously literate again. Prothero states that “this book argues for both the constitutionality

1) As a result of the immensely diverse nature of the phenomena it intends to understand, the study of religion requires a multitude of analytic methods. Consequently, these methods may be categorized as either being grounded in empirical analysis of biological, psychological, or physiological data - producing a perspective which is exclusively characterized as outsider. Thus, according to this definition, Sigmund Freud’s application of his Oedipus Complex theory is a near perfect example of an explanatory

Annotated References Astley, J; & Francis, L. (2010) British Journal of Religious Education, Promoting positive attitudes towards science and religion among sixth-form pupils: dealing with scientism and creationism. Vol. 32 Issue 3. The Routledge group writes a very compelling argument dealing with the attitudes towards science and religion. The authors have survey results from their research and supply the basic data learned. The paper data talks about the consistency of each institution

About halfway through reading Pierre Bourdieu’s The Logic of Practice, I realized I had an important question regarding this assignment: What does any of this have to do with religion? Not once was religion or any explicit religious theme specifically discussed, besides for a brief segment regarding myths and rites, which he actually structures within a heavily economic framework. In fact, this booked seemed more appropriate for a discussion regarding economic semiotics and socialization through

In his book, “Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity,” David Entwistle (2010) provides a persuasive discourse for the assimilation of psychology and theology; secular and religious disciplines that present a “multifaceted dialogue shaped by historical interactions and tensions.” (p. 51) Of the two systems, psychology is by much of the Church thought to advocate reason over revelation whereas theology is, by more secular-leaning scholars, thought to be wanting of intellect. With Tertullian

Sigmund Freud was a psychologist known as the ‘father of psychoanalysis’ who believed that our sense of moral understanding is a result of the conditioning of a growing being. He argued the human mind or ‘psyche’ is split into three parts; the id, which contains basic and primitive, desires e.g. hunger, thirst and lust; the ego, which involves perceptions of the external world that makes us aware of the ‘reality principle,’ one’s most outward aspect of our personality, and the super-ego, which

of culture, and freedom of religion aids in establishing societies self-identity. The Issue Rock of Ages and a Hard Space (2003) presents the topic of how society regulates religion. The issue consisted on whether the state can determine which studies they can provide funding

explore seemingly endless verses of scripture and prophecy. I sat in my new religion class jittering, for the long-awaited moment had finally come. The professor began class and I was immediately blind-sided by a barrage of essays, readings, and study packets. This couldn’t be right! I sat and listened in horror only to find that my safe haven from homework and stress was being annihilated and there was nothing I could do but wallow is my disappointment and self-doubt. This class quickly became