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Fruitful Conversations in Religion, Culture, and Teaching

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      • Introduction to Religious Studies
        • Interactive Notebook-Introduction to Religious Studies
      • Introduction to New Testament
        • Interactive Notebook-Introduction to New Testament
      • African Diaspora Religions
        • Interactive Notebook-African Diaspora Religions
      • Religious Studies as History, Discipline, & Field
      • Social Theory and Religious Studies
    • Past Course Offerings at Elizabethtown College
      • Signifying Religion: An African American Worldview
      • Scoping Out Religion: Theories and Methods
      • Islam
      • The New Testament
      • The Bible and Race in the USA
      • Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion
      • Watching the Watchmen: A Study in Modern Mythology
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Scripting Difference

Students and scholars explore explore the making of social difference (i.e. race, ethnicity, nationhood) as a byproduct of a communities investment in texts.

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Scoping Out Religion

Dr. Newton’s students peer at current events through the lenses of social theory and social- scientific methods.

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Sensations of Religion

An examination of the aesthetics of religion studied from various perspectives.

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Real Talk

The good kind of professional development…

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Teaching and Technology

A show-and-tell of effective digital pedagogues from around the internet.

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Teaching Starter

Quick, easy-to-use lessons to get your classroom going.

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What Privilege?

What happens when someone checks their own privilege or somebody else’s?

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Words We Mean By

A look at how diction, scripts, and names define our reality…and the bodies within it.

Read more Words We Mean By

Star Wars–Nuff Said?

Reexamining the study of religion with insights from a galaxy far, far away.

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Reading Race and Criminality

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented in discourses. These are their stories.

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Signifying Religion: An African American Worldview

Scholarship from the students in Dr. Newton’s Religion 101 course.

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New Testament

Dr. Newton’s students examine the evergreen making of Christian scriptures.

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Bible and Race in the USA

Dr. Newton’s students take a look through America’s fascination with race and “the good book,” –politics, passions, and promise.

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Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion

Dr. Newton’s students deconstruct our most intricate and imbricated social constructions.

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#BlackLivesMatter/#EtownEngage

Examining the matter of black life at Elizabethtown College and beyond.

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