Summarize the key ideas of each of these texts and explain how they shed light on our study of American religious diversity. Point out some key citations and explain the most important thing you learned from these readings and how these readings helped you achieve the educational goals of our course
- US Bill of Rights, UN DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, and UNESCO on Diversity and Tolerance; Dignitatis Humanae, and Nostra Aetate
- Clash of civilizations, Civil Religion (Reader, pp288-289), and Dominus Iesus
- Dynamics of Prejudice (Reader, pp.32-39; 111-114; 295-309)
- “Die Judenfrage” (Reader, pp.178-209)
- The Irish case (Reader, pp.169-177)
- Idolatry (Cantwell Smith, Reader, pp.259-266) and Tolerant Gods ( by Wole Soyinka, text on moodle)
- Sacred Texts, Christian and Islamic vision of Religious Tolerance (Reader, p.44, and moodle)
- The Real Kant, Multiculturalism, Eurocentrism and the Columbus paradigm (Reader, pp.93-103; 352-358; and pp.282-289)
- “Calore-Colore” Paradigm (Reader, pp. 323-346) and scholarship on ATR, and scientific theories or mythologies of otherness (pp, 111-128; 295-346)
- AAR article on Egyptology and “Egypt and Israel”