1st Edition

Understanding Your Students' Religions A Guide to Culturally Responsive Practices

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

This concise guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students’ school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a wide variety of religions as well as atheist practices. Each chapter covers origins, beliefs, practices, and common misunderstandings and stereotypes, as well as... Read more

1. Why Care About Religion? Principles of Religious Literacy  2. African Diaspora Religions  3. Atheist, Agnostic, Humanist, and Anti-religious Groups  4. Baha'I  5. Buddhism  6. Chinese Religions: Falun Gong  7. Chinese Religions: Traditional Chinese Religions  8. Christianity: Overview  9. Christianity: Amish, Mennonite, and other Anabaptist-descended Churches  10. Christianity: Anglican and Episcopal  11. Christianity: Baptist  12. Christianity: Black Churches  13. Christianity: Christian Science  14. Christianity: Jehovah's Witness  15. Christianity: Latter-day Saints  16. Christianity: Lutheran  17. Christianity: Methodist, Moravian, Wesleyan, and Holiness Churches  18. Christianity: Orthodox  19. Christianity: Pentecostal and Holiness  20. Christianity: Presbyterian and Other Reformed Churches  21. Christianity: Quaker (Friends)  22. Christianity: Restorationist (Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ)  23. Christianity: Roman and Eastern Catholic  24. Christianity: Seventh-Day Adventist  25. Christianity: Unitarian Universalist  26. Hinduism: Overview  27. Hinduism: Shaiva  28. Hinduism: Shakta  29. Hinduism: Vaishnava  30. Islam: Overview  31. Islam: Nation of Islam  32. Islam: Shia  33. Islam: Sunni  34. Jainism  35. Judaism: Overview  36. Judaism: Conservative  37. Judaism: Orthodox  38. Judaism: Reform  39. Neo-Paganism  40. North American Indigenous Religions  41. Scientology  42. Sikhism  43. Zoroastrianism 

Biography

Liz Wilson has published on South Asian forms of sexual regulation, especially celibacy, South Asian modes of death and dying, and how Asian foodways and modes of religious dress have been adopted and altered in Western contexts. She has published a monograph on how gender figures in Buddhist literature about meditation, two edited volumes on Asian religious practices, and a coauthored textbook on religion, gender, and the body. Wilson teaches a course on religion and law that deals with case law on non-Christian religious expression in U.S. schools.

Michael Nichols specializes in Asian religions and religion in popular culture. He has published a monograph on Buddhist mythology and another monograph on the Marvel comic cinematic universe as seen through the lens of religious studies.

Peter W. Williams is an expert on American religions, with a particular focus on material culture and religious architecture. He has published a monograph on popular religion in America, another book on religion and architecture in America, and a reference work on America’s religions that has been a perennial source of information for many different audiences.