Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program

Make sense of the diversity of human experience, thought, and action, past and present. Stoke the fires of your curiosity. Study Religion at Brooklyn College.

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

"When done right, the work of the humanities is the work of anti-racism...of undercutting assumptions and stereotypes about the people around us and bringing nuance to our perspectives, so that...we begin seeing the richness of our human experiences." @BCThinkers

[Brooklyn College History Department @HistoryDept_BC]

Spring 2023 Course

Contact Prof. Mancia for details

LaurenMancia @ https://t.co/K9KFOC3HUk

[Brooklyn College History Department @HistoryDept_BC]

August 31 at 12:30pm, history lounge, first floor Boylan:
The undergraduate Historical Society will host Patricia H. Scroggs, Director of Diplomatic Fellowships, Howard University.
More info below:

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@CHitch94 @ElizKeoBurb @SHEG_Stanford And there is some here too: https://t.co/U1yqxjZhdG
https://t.co/bhumMytBr1

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@CHitch94 @ElizKeoBurb @SHEG_Stanford https://t.co/hv565FkYmi also

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@CHitch94 @ElizKeoBurb @SHEG_Stanford I find this helpful (there should be more!): https://t.co/53YcjuwkF9

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork https://t.co/UWw6HrJuFC #sschat also! @ElizKeoBurb

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy I also find this helpful: https://t.co/fQknljl5uQ #sschat

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork https://t.co/Ex7piHzF2G too!

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy And this! https://t.co/cv6nfMr65W

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy https://t.co/ty8H7oVfuE
and
https://t.co/FFzll66wmK

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy This too: https://t.co/t4mA9BTEUm

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork I feel like this is so essential: https://t.co/MhSdDRpmZc
I also love using this to look at visual culture that is happening simultaneously in the global medieval world:
https://t.co/RgOixcucua

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy The Brooklyn College working group on the premodern world has monthly seminars open to visitors! Will be on zoom & in person in BK. https://t.co/FeD1WRx00K (and feel free to email [email protected] for more info)!

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy No, unfortunately! First off, I think that we don't call it "medieval Africa" or "medieval China" at my college when we're training teachers--so we don't make these connections between europe/africa/asia explicit, which we should!

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@ERBeckman @CHitch94 Yes I love this! They are always so shocked by it!

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork I wonder what it would be like to not teach "China" and then "Greece" and then "Rome" and then "Mayan civ." and then (separately) Belief systems? But instead a more integrated series of units?

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork One of the hard things about the NYS curriculum is that it is often taught as separate units--Europe, China, Africa, India, etc. are not taught together, as an interconnected world. When I taught high school, I wished I could teach Mali & Al Andaluz & France all at once!

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork That "they" thought the world was flat... That there was "always" tension between east/west, Christians/non-Christians, Islamic world/Europe... That each continent (Europe, Asia, Africa) was isolated from the others...

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork For my students who are serious practitioners of a religion, studying the history of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the Middle Ages is especially interesting, as is comparing Buddhist monasticism and Christian monasticism!

[Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program @bc_relg]

@SSChatNetwork I think that, for students who are immigrants, they appreciate learning about the premodern history of their culture in the U.S., because 1) it makes them feel seen, but also 2) bc it's often a story told differently here than their home country, which makes for great discussion!