Podcasts about comparing religions

In this episode, as a follow up to the last one, we explore a theology of comparative religions. Are all faiths the same? How do different religions act towards each other? Thanks for tuning in and we hope this episode challenges and inspires you.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This pedagogy seminar will focus on a graduate course on the theory of comparison: "The Very Idea of Comparing Religions." Dean Laurie Patton (Duke University, incoming President of Middlebury College) will lead a discussion on how a case-study method may be effectively used for teaching comparatively, drawing on her own extensive experience with such a method. Teaching comparatively, moreover, may involve not only drawing on the case studies of others but also equipping students to design and carry out their own case studies. Dean Patton’s presentation will address effects of such pedagogical methods, the merits and limits of using the same case study throughout the course, how to enable students’ sustained engagement with such case studies to become more textured as the course proceeds, and how the particular design of this class fosters a specific kind of intellectual community. The quarterly Dean's Craft of Teaching Seminar is the flagship seminar of the Craft of Teaching program, centered on issues of course design and institutional context. Laurie L. Patton (PhD, History of Religions, 1991) is incoming President of Middlebury College. She is currently the Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the Divinity School’s 2015 Alum of the Year. The Craft of Teaching (CoT) is the Divinity School's program of pedagogical development for its graduate students, dedicated to preparing a new generation of accomplished educators in the field of religious studies. We bring together Divinity School faculty, current students, and an extensive alumni network of decorated teachers to share our craft and to advance critical reflection on religious studies pedagogy.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This pedagogy seminar will focus on a graduate course on the theory of comparison: "The Very Idea of Comparing Religions." Dean Laurie Patton (Duke University, incoming President of Middlebury College) will lead a discussion on how a case-study method may be effectively used for teaching comparatively, drawing on her own extensive experience with such a method. Teaching comparatively, moreover, may involve not only drawing on the case studies of others but also equipping students to design and carry out their own case studies. Dean Patton’s presentation will address effects of such pedagogical methods, the merits and limits of using the same case study throughout the course, how to enable students’ sustained engagement with such case studies to become more textured as the course proceeds, and how the particular design of this class fosters a specific kind of intellectual community. The quarterly Dean's Craft of Teaching Seminar is the flagship seminar of the Craft of Teaching program, centered on issues of course design and institutional context. Laurie L. Patton (PhD, History of Religions, 1991) is incoming President of Middlebury College. She is currently the Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the Divinity School’s 2015 Alum of the Year. The Craft of Teaching (CoT) is the Divinity School's program of pedagogical development for its graduate students, dedicated to preparing a new generation of accomplished educators in the field of religious studies. We bring together Divinity School faculty, current students, and an extensive alumni network of decorated teachers to share our craft and to advance critical reflection on religious studies pedagogy.

Erin Prophet is a scholar of religion. She is the author of Prophet’s Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside Church Universal and Triumphant. She is a co-author of the textbook Comparing Religions by Jeffrey J. Kripal. She co-authored with her mother Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity. She has a master’s in public health from Boston University and is completing her doctorate at Rice University. In early 1990, in response to apocalyptic prophecies given by her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered a network of underground bunkers in Montana along with members of her mother’s Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect. Emerging to find the world still intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of her life and her beliefs. She had spent her adolescence watching her mother vilified as a dangerous cult leader even while attempting to meet her expectations by becoming a “prophet” herself. Prophet’s Daughter describes Erin’s search for her mother’s origins and motivations. With the craft of a storyteller, she describes the combination of health crises and external pressure that drove her mother’s ever-more dire prophecies. She reveals how the allure of infallibility led her mother to a conspicuous downfall, and how her mother’s rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s disease truncated any hope of resolution. A remarkable memoir with implications for the dialog about power, group behavior and the future of religion.