Our Growth

Find out what Sowing the Seed has meant to some of our student and scholar contributors.

Critical Reading & Writing

This video series helps students become active learners. The models presented can help students become more efficient and effective in their engagement of course materials by building literacy.

Critical Thinking & Critical Theory

The Critical Thinking and Critical Theory series features instructional videos used in my courses.

An Introduction to the World’s Religions

This series is a primer to the study of the world religions as examples of social formation and contestation. They provide a handy way to get students thinking about religion as discourse.

Identifying Roots

These are companion videos to my research on Alex Haley’s Roots. The culmination of that work may be found in my forthcoming book, Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Equinox 2018). Follow discussion of that work on Twitter at #idRoots.

The Bible in Cultural Formation

These videos look at the way Bible is deputized in ordering bodies. Examples come from pop culture and ethnographic field research.

Maya Clare Cares About Religion

A comedy video series based upon Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin’s Stereotyping Religion

The Outgrowth

The Outgrowth gives you a front row seat into the classroom of our curator, Dr. Richard Newton. With projects, highlights, and conversations from Newton’s own pedagogical journey, this series will inspire you to teach like only you can.

Introduction to Religious Studies

This video series complements Craig Martin’s A Critical Introduction to Religious Studies, Second Edition (Routledge 2017). Each video corresponds with one of the main instructional chapters, highlighting key points and demonstrating how to use some of the analytical models presented. Those interested in using the series should also check out our interactive notebook assignments, supplementary…

Religion in 5 Minutes Companion Videos

This video series created by Allison Isidore complements the volume Religion in 5 Minutes, edited by Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon.