Teaching Religious Literacy - A Guide to Religious and Spiritual Diversity in Higher Education

Offering resources and initiatives on religious and spiritual diversity in higher education, this book describes the conceptual foundations for teaching religious literacy, offers a sample curriculum with a facilitator's guide, and provides the assessment tools needed to assess its development among students. By building off of a comprehensive overview of NYU's award-winning Faith Zone training program, this book breaks down the methodology and tools required to create religious literacy training curricula at campuses around the world.

List of contents

1. A Priest and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar: Now What? 2. Introducing Religious Literacy 3. Measuring Religious Literacy 4. Translating to a Workshop 5. Sample Workshop 6. Workshop Outcome 7. Bringing Faith Zone to Your Campus

About the author

Ariel Ennis is Assistant Director and Senior Multifaith Educator at the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership in the Office of Global Spiritual Life, and Adjunct Lecturer at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, USA, and creator and host of the Multifaithful Podcast.

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Ennis, Ennis Ariel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138635852
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63585-2
• No. of pages: 92
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Medicine, RELIGION / Education, Spiritualism, Religion: general, Social Work, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems, Medicine and Nursing, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher