Download or read book Teaching the Introductory Course in Religious Studies written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press Teaching the Introductory Course in Religious Studiesis a comprehensive, hands-on guide to creating a thoughtful and effective course in world religions and introduction to religion. It contains clear and succinct essays on the different ways the course can be conceived, practical hints for the classroom, sample syllabuses and bibliographies, and advice from experts in each of the world’s religious traditions on what aspects of their tradition should be emphasized and what stereotypes should be avoided. It also contains essays on “how I teach the introductory course” by such leading figures in the field as Huston Smith, Robert Bellah, Jonathan Z. Smith, Ninian Smart, and Wilfred Cantwell Smith.