A 2019 course by Andrew Monteith at Elon University analyzes “the ways that movies, television, sports, novels, and other types of popular culture can shape, cultivate, interact with, and even serve as religion.”
A 2020 course by Bryan Lowe at Princeton University “introduces the religious traditions of Japan from the earliest myths to present-day practices” with special attention to the interplay of religion and culture.
A 2020 course by Bryan Lowe at Princeton University “offers a roughly chronological narrative of key themes in the study of Japanese Buddhism from ancient times through the modern day.”
A 2019 course by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan at Seminary of the Southwest “engages multiple texts, scripture, literature, film, music, socio-political movements, and art to explore the violent system that grounds theological, psycho-socio-economic, and political oppression: white supremacist patriarchal misogyny, and the resulting intergenerational trauma, from a Womanist theological ethics perspective.”
A 2018 course by Ingie Hovland at the University of Georgia investigates the origins, course, and contemporary forms of Christianity in Africa. Issues in missionology and colonialism are considered.
A 2018 course by Jill DeTemple at Southern Methodist University “is designed as an intermediate course” to introduce students to “the border as a geographic and cognitive location rooted in history.”
A 2014 course by Ron Anderson at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary provides “a historical and theological overview of
church music. Although there will be some semblance to surveys of music
history, it will focus on the various histories and traditions that have primarily
shaped the practice of church music in North America.”
A 2014 course by Gennifer Brooks at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary surveys “the history, theology and practice of preaching in the African American context, generally referred to as Black Preaching.”
A 2014 course by Larry Murphy at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary examines “select issues black ministers have faced and addressed as they pursued the mission and ministries of the church” as well as “insights into the effective contemporary practice of ministry.”
A 2014 course by Cheryl Anderson at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary acquaints students “with the variety of biblical interpretations in the African American tradition” and the general principles of biblical hermeneutics.
