Religious Literacy Through Ethnography
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 134
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 134
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By reading this book, you will realize how education and literacy about other religions and cultures can change our individual and communal perspectives about the experiences of others and can hopefully help us live together in a pluralistic world by respecting our differences.
Religious Literacy Through Ethnography can be used for multiple purposes such as a supplemental textbook in courses related to world religions, introductions to religious studies, anthropology of religion, and philosophy of religion. Students can critique the experiences in this book, and supplement what they learn from their main textbook. Additionally, the general public can benefit from this book by learning the real experiences of observers of a religion practiced in the United States.
Religious Literacy Through Ethnography
Dedicated to
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Christianity
Tom’s Journey
A Critique Sample
Visiting My Childhood Church as an Outsider
Christian Mother and a Muslim Father
A Muslim’s Experience in a Church
Islam
Downtown Mosque
A Critique Sample
Two Muslim Girls
A Christian Experience in a Mosque
God or Allah?
Judaism
A Muslim Girl in a Jewish Temple Congregation Beth
A Christian in a Synagogue, Temple Shalom
Brittany: I didn’t Even Realize that There Was a Jewish Temple Just 10 Minutes Away from My Home!
Buddhism
Carl: Is Buddhism Philosophy or Religion?
Muslim Experience from Cambodian Buddhist Society Temple
Anna: My Thoughts Have Changed After My Visit
Final Remarks
Bibliography
Interview Questions
Yunus Kumek completed his PhD at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo with a dissertation topic in the area of social anthropology about the relationships between teaching experiences and the beliefs and cultures of international teachers working in American schools. His study was later published as a book: International Teachers in American Schools (2011). He continued his work as a research associate in the anthropology department at the same university. Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Divinity school. He is currently the religious studies coordinator and lecturer at SUNY Buffalo State. His research interests include anthropology of religion, culture and education, scriptural analysis, religion and science, anthropology of medicine, and mysticism. He also has a master’s degree in physics from SUNY at Buffalo. Dr. Kumek has given academic talks and published in the areas of anthropology, religion and physics, cancer, and medicine. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in religious studies at SUNY Buffalo State, Daemen College and Niagara University.