World History
Did you know that Hinduism, despite its many gods, is not polytheistic. Or, that Hindus do not worship cows.
Those are two of nine myths about Hinduism that Moni Basu attempts to debunk in an essay for CNN Belief Blog.
This is a great background essay students might read when studying or reviewing Hinduism.
I posted this on my religions blog. You might find other interesting posts on that blog about the religions we teach in world history. Just search for the religion in which you're interested in the search box.
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World History
9 Myths about Hinduism Debunked
Those are two of nine myths about Hinduism that Moni Basu attempts to debunk in an essay for CNN Belief Blog.
This is a great background essay students might read when studying or reviewing Hinduism.
I posted this on my religions blog. You might find other interesting posts on that blog about the religions we teach in world history. Just search for the religion in which you're interested in the search box.
- Teaching About India
Teaching about India. This essay has ideas for teaching about India. This includes dealing with the history of India. From the site: India, a significant area of Asia in the past, is a very important part of today's world. Therefore, the peoples...
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I am almost laughing thinking that some of you will actually be out of school in a week or so whereas I go until June 25th (yes indeed) and then start summer school teaching on July 1st (but I love my job so there is no complaining here!). But...
- Reading The Bhagavad Gita Today
Here's a great essay about the value of the Bhagavad Gita today, written by Charles Martin who co-authored a new translation of the Hindu classic. The Gita is part of the great Indian classic, the Mahabharata and Martin sees a number of lessons from...
- New World Religion Blog
Here is a link to a World Religions blog that I started over the holiday break. I teach one section of World Religions and thought that it might be helpful to have a central place for all the links and clips that we come across. There is a lot...
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One of my teacher-students, Jessica May, just pointed out the site mentioned below showing via maps how the history of religion has grown. Believe it or not, it was one of my first posts back in 2008. It details how the geography of religion...