ReligionWise Podcast
ReligionWise features educators, researchers, and other professionals discussing topics on religion and their relevance to the public conversation.
ReligionWise features educators, researchers, and other professionals discussing topics on religion and their relevance to the public conversation.
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If you look carefully at religious traditions in your own neighborhood or around the globe, you quickly discover that different religious communities think very differently about the way the world works.
To understand our fellow humans, we must examine these worldviews that are rooted in the religious and cultural contexts of diverse communities. Only by carefully considering and analyzing these differences can we understand how others perceive the world and act within it.
The Institute’s mission is to strive to create a community engaged in the pursuit of understanding and analyzing how religion and culture impact our neighborhoods and our world.
The local South Asian American population has grown substantially over the last generation in the Lehigh Valley. With it, the presence and prominence of Hindu temples and other sacred sites has also flourished. This edition of WorldViews will delve into the details of the ritual and worship practices within local Hindu temples, including the Hindu Temple Society in Allentown.
In today’s environment, an understanding of the different religions of the world is not a luxury but a necessity.
This Ancient Near East scholar’s research on two American young-Earth-creationist institutions provided fodder for timely discussions in the classroom.