May 2013
- Translating Religion Courses to an Online Format: Introduction
Ellen Posman, Baldwin-Wallace College, and Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
- Rethinking Online Education
Sandie Gravett, Appalachian State University
- Introducing Religion to Cyberstudents
Erica Hurwitz Andrus, University of Vermont
- Diversity in Online Education
Andrew T. Arroyo, Norfolk State University
- Hybrid or Blended Teaching Formats: What and Why
John T. Strong, Missouri State University
- Dancing Online with Your Students
Marla J. Selvidge, University of Central Missouri
- The Challenge of Online Education
John Baumann, University of Oregon
- The Internet Is Not a Classroom: Online Education and the Challenges of Socialization
Annie Blazer, College of William and Mary, and Brandi Denison, University of North Florida
- Navigating the Sea of Cyberspace
Justin Arft, University of Missouri
- Translating Religion Courses to an Online Format: Suggested Resources
October 2012
- Teaching Religious Studies in Stand-alone MA Programs: Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editor: Stephen C. Berkwitz, Missouri State University
- Context and Conversation in a Stand-alone MA Program
Kent L. Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Teaching Split-level Classes
Liz Wilson, Miami University, Ohio
- Isolating a Passage from a Reading in “Mixed” or “Split-level” Courses
Carolyn M. Jones Medine, University of Georgia
- Climb Up or Dig Down: Reflections on the Capstone Course in a Religious Studies MA Program
William R. Lindsey, University of Kansas
- Grappling With Less Commonly Taught Languages in a Stand-alone Master’s Program
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Graduate Student Pedagogical Training as a Key Component of Stand-alone MA Programs in Religious Studies
Brian C. Wilson, Western Michigan University, and Stephen G. Covell, Western Michigan University
- Integrating Community Engagement and Service Learning into an MA Program
Andrea L. Stanton, University of Denver
- The Master’s Thesis: Overcoming Its Challenges
Martha L. Finch, Missouri State University
- Teaching Religious Studies in Stand-alone MA Programs: Suggested Resources
- "Go-To" Teaching Resources
May 2012
- Distinctive, Not Disposable: Religious Studies in American Public Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
Guest Editor: Joanne Robinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- From Traditions to Topics to Themes, within an Era of Technological Change
Joel Gereboff, Arizona State University
- Religious Studies in the Context of Liberal Education
Brian C. Wilson, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
- Teaching Religion, Teaching Disruption: Inculcating Independent Critical Thinking through the Study of Religion
Stephen C. Finley, Louisiana State University
- The Examined Life: Religious Studies and the Cultivation of Self-Reflection
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University, Boone
- The Lively Classroom: A Fusion of Gen Ed and Religious Studies
Celia Brewer Sinclair, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Hybrid Vigor in Religious Studies Courses
Lora Hobbs, Missouri State University
- Religious Studies in American Public Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Suggested Resources
October 2011
- Intercultural and Transnational Pedagogy: Editors' Introduction
Issue Editors: Ellen Posman, Baldwin-Wallace College, and Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
- Thoughts on Intercultural Education in Religious Studies
Edwin David Aponte, New York Theological Seminary and Temple University
- The 2010 Census and the Undergraduate Classroom
Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Pfeiffer University
- Teaching Buddhism, Teaching Otherness?: “Many Buddhisms” in Transnational Chicago
Anne Mocko, University of Chicago
- Chi, Postcolonial Theory, and Theological Pedagogy
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary
- Interrogating the University Archive
Gregory Lee Cuéllar, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
- Teaching Religion and Theology: Intercultural and Transnational Online Resources
Jonathan Y. Tan, Australian Catholic University
- Intercultural and Transnational Pedagogies: Suggested Resources
May 2011
- Teaching Religion and Ecology: Background and Overview
Issue Editors: Ellen Posman, Baldwin-Wallace College, and Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
- Religion and Ecology from a Postcolonial Perspective
Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University
- Channeling Realities: Religion, Ecology, and Technology in the Classroom
Whitney A. Bauman, Florida International University
- Divinity and Forestry: Graduate Religious Education for Environmental Problems
Willis Jenkins, Yale University
- Performative Pedagogies: Religion and Ecology, Wilderness Spirituality
Bobbi Patterson, Emory University
- The Project Component Does Work in Environmental Ethics
Carol S. Robb, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union
- Environmental and Economic Injustice
Laura Stivers, Dominican University of California
- Teaching Religion and Ecology: Suggested Resources
October 2010
- Teaching for Civic Engagement: Background and Overview
Issue Editors: Ellen Posman, Baldwin-Wallace College, and Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
- Engaged Pedagogy and Civic Engagement
Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University
- Site Visits and Civic Engagement
Marianne Delaporte, Notre Dame de Namur University, and Hans Wiersma, Augsburg College
- Civic Engagement and International Service-Learning
Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Pfeiffer University
- Civic Engagement and Civic Spaces
Rebekka King, University of Toronto
- Reflections on Engaged Civic Learning and Teaching
Bobbi Patterson, Emory University
- Teaching for Civic Engagement: Suggested Resources
May 2010
October 2009
Original Print PDF
- The Tenth Anniversary of the AAR Excellence in Teaching Award
Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College, and Chair AAR Teaching and Learning Committee
- A Pedagogy of Incompleteness
Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College
- Literacy and Resistance: On Introducing Religion
Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College
- The Pedagogical Value of Our Existential “Why?”
Timothy Renick, Georgia State University
- Reaffirming Teaching as an Act of Composition
Patricia O’Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University
- Cultivating a Pedagogy of Possibility: The Moral Wisdom and Ethical Practice of Teaching as a Vocation
Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
- Ignatius, Dewey, and Me: How Ignatian and Experiential Pedagogies Have Transformed My Teaching
Fred Glennon, LeMoyne College
May 2008
Original Print PDF
October 2007
Original Print PDF
- Diversifying Knowledge Production: The Other within Christianity
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Hegemonies of Knowledge Production
Guest Editor: Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
- On Being the Academic Other
Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology
- Redemptive Difference: What Can a Black Woman Teach Me?
Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School
- The Other within Mexican-American Religious Studies
Gastón Espinosa, Claremont McKenna College
- Whose Religion? Immigrants and the First Amendment
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University
- Homosexualized and Racialized Enemy as Anti/Christ
Erin Runions, Pomona College
- Dialectic Emptying: Self and the Other Within
Andrew Sung Park, United Theological Seminary
- Transmodern, Transnational, Transdisciplinary, Trans...
Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School
- From Theorizing the Other to Theories of Others
Elizabeth A. Castelli, Columbia University
- Survival Strategies for an Ethnic Studies Professor
Andrea Smith, University of Michigan
May 2007
Original Print PDF
- News, Media, and Teaching Religion
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Ways of Truth-Telling in a Wired World
Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College
- Deconstructing the Media in Virtual Classrooms
Claire Badaracco, Marquette University
- Dolly, Fluffy, and Teaching Ethics 101
Kiki Kennedy-Day, American University in Cairo
- Swimming in the Sea of News
Whitney Bodman, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
- “Authentic Material”: Ads, Pictures, and Krishna Utensils
Rebecca J. Manring, Indiana University
- News, Popular Media, and Orientalist Islam
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
- Teaching Religion, Media, and Culture in Haifa
Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa
- Reporting on Religion: A Journalist’s View
Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service
October 2006
Original Print PDF
- Teaching Difficult Subjects
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Gurus, Swamis, and Others
Guest Editor: Cynthia Ann Humes, Claremont McKenna College
- Hinduism Here
Jack Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Cosmology Hopping: Engaging and Avoiding Controversy in the Religious Studies Classroom
Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University
- Teaching Religion in a Changing World That Needs Changing
Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge
- Orientalism and Islam in the Post-9/11 Classroom
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
- The Problem of Pluralism: Teaching Islamic Diversity
Vernon James Schubel, Kenyon College
- Difficult Knowledges: Sexuality, Gender, Religion
Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Teaching, Voic(ing), Silenc(ing): Toward a Polyglot Pedagogy
Robert D. Maldonado, California State University, Fresno
- Teaching “Native American Religions” in Central New York
Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University
- Teaching on War
Larry Kent Graham, Iliff School of Theology
- Teaching the Unteachable: Cassandra’s Paradox
Michael Dobkowski and Richard C. Salter, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
October 2005
Original Print PDF
- Reflections on a Teaching Career in Religion
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Evoking a World You Might Inhabit
Guest Editor: Edward Mooney, Syracuse University
- Delight in Learning is Infectious
Margaret Miles, Graduate Theological Union
- Against a Narrow View of the World
Peter Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Loving the Future
Rebecca Chopp, Colgate University
- Allowing the Possibility of Multiple Truths
Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley
- Embracing Embodied, Mediated Knowledge
Katie Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
- Helping a Mind Grow
Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University
- Get Them Inspired First
Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago
May 2005
Original Print PDF
- Embracing Disability in Teaching Religion
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Integrating Disability in Religious Studies and Theological Education
Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University
- Disability Law and the Classroom
F. Rachel Magdalene, Appalachian State University
- Accommodating Disability in the Classroom
Guest Editor: Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University
- A Student’s Perspective on the Accessible Classroom
Kirk VanGilder, Boston University
- New Bodies of Knowledge: Disability Studies and Teaching Biblical Studies
Hector Avalos, Iowa State University
- Disability and the Tasks of Social Justice
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Teaching Students Who Are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Hearing Impaired
Jane Hurst, Gallaudet University
- Students with Learning Disabilities
Kent A. Eaton, Bethel Seminary San Diego
- He Who Has Ears to Hear
Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University, San Marcos
- An Academic’s Encounter with Chronic Illness: Teaching, Collegiality and Scholarship, and Students with Chronic Conditions
Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University
- The Future of Disability in the Teaching of Religion: Views from the Next Generation
Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology
October 2004
Original Print PDF
- Teaching with Site Visits
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Unexpected Learning Opportunities of the Site Visit
Guest Editor: Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University
- An Insider Perspective from the Temple
P. Ravi Sarma, Hindu Temple of Atlanta
- Site Visits and Epistemological Diversity in the Study of Religion
Jeffrey Carlson, Dominican University
- The Nuts and Bolts of Site Visits
Grace G. Burford, Prescott College
- Native American Site Visits in the Context of Service Learning
Michael D. McNally, Carleton College
- Site Visits to Synagogues
Michael S. Berger, Emory University
- Site Visit to a Mosque
Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge
- Integrating Field Research in the Introductory Religion Course
Sheila E. McGinn, John Carroll University
- Integrating Site Visits in the Pluralism Project at Connecticut College
Patrice C. Brodeur, Connecticut College
- Site Visits from a Journalist’s Perspective
Gustav Niebuhr, Syracuse University
- Temples of Culture: Using Museums for Site Visits
Lisa Bellan-Boyer, Hudson County Community College
May 2004
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- Teaching about Religions, Medicines, and Healing
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Teaching Religion and Healing
Guest Editor: Linda Barnes, Boston University
- Religion, Healing, and the Embodied Subject
Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University
- Teaching Religion and Healing in a Southern University
Kaja Finkler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Spirituality of Healing
Kwok Pui-lan, Episcopal Divinity School
- Shamanism and Religious Healing
Christopher Carr, Arizona State University, and Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University
- Shamanism and Religious Healing
Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University
- Magic, Witchcraft, and Healing
Arvilla Payne-Jackson, Howard University
- Teaching Chicanos/as and Religion: Traditions and Transformations
Lara Medina, California State University, Northridge
- Medicines, Healing, and Spiritualities: A Cross-Cultural Exploration
Paula Arai, Carleton College
October 2003
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- Teaching about Religion and Violence
Editor: Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Teaching about Religious Violence without Trivializing It
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Religion and Violence: A Teaching Opportunity
Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College
- Beyond the Four Naivetés: Approaching the Secular as If It Were Religious
Ira Chernus, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Religion after 9/11: Hijack It, Exonerate It, Get over It?
Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College
- Exegesis Has Consequences: Teaching Biblical Warrants for Violence
Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University, San Marcos
- Religion and Violence: Teaching Islam at an Evangelical Institution
David Vila, John Brown University
- Teaching about Millennialism, Peace, and Violence
Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans
- Poisonous Teachings: Aum Shinrikyo and Violence
Ian Reader, Lancaster University, England
- Religion, Nationalism, Violence, and Leadership: The South Asian Context
Ainslie Embree, John Hopkins University
- World Religions, Violence, and Conflict Resolution
Marc Gopin, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
May 2003
Original Print PDF
October 2002
Original Print PDF
March 2002
Original Print PDF
- Spotlight on Teaching about Religion in the Schools: Multiculturalism and the Academic Study of Religion in the Schools
Guest Editors: Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico, and D. Keith Naylor, Occidental College Editor: Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford
- Guidelines on Religion in Public Schools: An Historic Moment
Marcia Beauchamp
- University Religion Departments and Teaching about the Bible in Public High Schools: A Report from Florida
David Levenson, Religion Department, Florida State University
- Interview: A Teacher’s Perspective
Martha Ball, Butler Middle School
- Weighty Matters and the Teenage Reader
Jenna Weissman Joselit, Princeton University
- The Program in Religion and Secondary Education at Harvard Divinity School
Diane L. Moore, Harvard University and Phillips Academy
- The Religion and Public Education Resource Center
Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
- God, gods, and Godot: Thoughts on Teaching about Religion in Secondary Education
Matthew Hicks
- Religion and Education
Michael D. Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa
- Moses Who? Literacy, Citizenship, and the Academic Study of Religion in the Schools
Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
Fall 2001
Original Print PDF
Spring 2001
Original Print PDF
- Teaching Religion and Music: “Those Who Sing Pray Twice”
Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
- Hearing the Sacred: Introducing Religious Chant and Music into Religious Studies Teaching
Guy L. Beck, Tulane University
- Sacred Music in the Religious Studies Classroom
Stephen Marini, Wellesley College
- In Pursuit of Active Listening
Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside
- Religion, Musically Speaking
Carol M. Babiracki, Syracuse University
- From the Dutar to the Electric Guitar: Exposing Students to the Music of the Muslim World
Vernon J. Schubel, Kenyon College
- Explorations in Jewish Music
Joshua R. Jacobson, Northeastern University
- Environmental Activist Music as Community-Building Ritual
Masen Uliss, University of Colorado
- The Importance of Listening to the Heartbeat of Mother Earth
Ina J. Fandrich, Swarthmore College
September 2000
May 2000
November 1999
- Teaching for the Next Millenium: Top Choices of Significant Works on Teaching and Pedagogy
Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford
- The Initiation of Satyakama: The Teaching Power of an Early Indian Narrative
Laurie L. Patton, Associate Editor of Spotlight on Teaching, Emory University
- Phyllis H. Kaminiski, Saint Mary's College, Indiana
- An Ecology of Teaching: Dharma Gaia
Bobbi Patterson, Emory University
- Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Union Theological Seminary
- Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College
- Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University
- My Top Choices on Teaching and Pedagogy: An Annotated Bibliography for Professors of Religion
David B. Howell, Ferrum University
May 1999
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