#  Resources for Teaching and Learning: Book Recommendations 

 





June 28, 2024

 

 

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Religion and Public Life provides educational opportunities and resources for how to recognize, understand, and analyze religious influences in historic contexts and contemporary life. Enhance your learning journey with this Religion and Public Life booklist, which includes texts that teach religious literacy and RPL’s method.

## Our Recommendations – for Teachers

- *Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education* by Diane L. Moore
- *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* by Paulo Freire
- *Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom* by bell hooks
- “Cultural Violence” by Johan Galtung, (*Journal of Peace Research*, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 291-305, Aug.1990), Sage Publications, Ltd.

### Our Recommendations – for Learners

- “Secularism, Sovereignty, and Religious Difference: A Global Genealogy?” by Saba Mahmood (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(2), pp 197-209, 2017).
- *Secularisms* by Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
- *Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity* by Talal Asad, part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series
- *Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Readers*, edited by S. Brent Plate
- *The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis* by Amitav Ghosh
- *The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace* by John Paul Lederach

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