As naive as it may sound, I thought that I could learn more about Islamic Studies and history at university than at “Saturday” school on the weekends while at the mosque. The mosque lessons about ...Read More
America’s Bill of Rights promises freedom of religion in that the government shall make no law restricting the exercise of religion. The American people, by contrast, have often struggled to accept ...Read More
The emerging academic field of interreligious and interfaith studies (IIS) has burst onto the scene relatively recently and will be, I suspect, coming to a college or university near you soon. Current...Read More
Recently UC Riverside Religious Studies professor Ivan Strenski published a piece on the Religion Dispatches blog with a provocative question: can religion professors save the planet? He was respondin...Read More