This page is basically a hodgepodge of readings, links, strategies, and other resources that I have found useful in the classroom. Please feel free to use any of the ideas presented here in your own classrooms.
Links
American Religious Experience
Writing Religious Studies Papers
Writing Humanities Papers
Strategies
Coming Soon!
Readings
Nacirema
This reading is basically a rendering of American culture by an American anthropologist, who became weary of the exoticism of other cultures. Thus, he place American culture under the magnifying class to demonstrate the problems of our desire to exoticize. I use this reading in particular to show both my religion students and my humanities students the importance of cultural context and the need to understand different cultures rather than to exoticize them. This is a good introductory exercise for both my religion and humanities courses.