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11-4-1999

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How should a student approach the study of religion?

Dr. Judith Plaskow discusses how difficult it is to teach religion to students who come to class with preexisting and often negative opinions on the subject. Her advice to students is that they should think of a religion course as an opportunity to learn and gain respect for other systems that try to identify meanings in life. She also points out the importance of exploring the concept of religion within human history, and its current vital role in our globalized society.

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Playing Time: 3:10 minutes

About the Interviewee:

Dr. Judith Plaskow is Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College. Her major interest is in feminist theology in the United States and Europe and she is co-founder of The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and co-edited it for its first ten years. Past President of the American Academy of Religion, Dr. Plaskow helped found the Jewish feminist group, B’not Esh. She has written two books, Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, and Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective and published other works of note, mostly on the topic of feminist spirituality. Dr. Plaskow is a graduate of Yale University.

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Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and

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