Presentation on Religion in America

At long last, another presentation is available from the lecture series, “Let’s Talk About Religion,” sponsored by Pitkin County Senior Services. This time I had the honor to tag team with my close colleague and friend, Rev. Thomas DeZauche, as we tackled religious traditions in the U.S. For this presentation we focused on traditions that are foreign to the Americas, namely Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. We hope to put together a separate presentation on indigenous religious traditions in 2021.

Thank you for watching!

Another round of lectures on World Religions!

It has been a busy month! I last posted in early July with an online lecture, “Introduction to Religious Studies,” offered through Pitkin County Senior Services in Aspen, CO. In the past month I completed additional lectures on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sufism. The embedded links are to these videos on YouTube, and you can also access them through Pitkin County Senior Services list of activities.

These lectures have been really fun to create. Squeezing as much as possible into a 30-40 minute presentation is a great challenge, even if for every piece content included, there are 100+ things excluded. My hope is that these lectures provide a starting point for anyone interested in learning about world religions. I’ve included a slide at the end of each presentation featuring “additional readings,” for further study.

As I said, there are more lectures in the works, stay tuned for the next group!

Lecture series through Pitkin County Senior Services

I am happy to announce that the first of several lectures introducing religious studies as a field, as well as talking about some different religious traditions, is now available online. Below are links to the Pitkin County Senior Services website (where you can browse through the different offerings), and then my “Intro to Religious Studies” lecture is available via YouTube.

In the coming weeks I will be completing general introductory lectures on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with one more specific lecture on Sufism. Lectures are all 30-45 minutes long, and include information on each tradition’s history, key institutions, rituals, holidays, and demographics. Each presentation also contains an “additional reading” section. The goal for each lecture is to provide an introductory presentation to a 101-level college course.

My colleague, Thomas DeZauche, is completing presentations on Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and indigenous traditions from North America. Once completed, these presentations will provide a nice survey for anyone interested in learning about religious traditions from around the world.

Enjoy!

https://www.pitkinseniors.com/virtual-events--activities.html  

https://youtu.be/HB23ioPrCSM

P.S. I will post to my website as more and more of the presentations become available online.