Videos for Teaching

Faces of Religious Diversity

Images showing internal diversity within five major religious traditions. This video originally appeared as part of the HarvardX course Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures.


Core Principles Animations

Situatedness

Animation explaining the concept of “situatedness,” a key component of the cultural studies approach to learning and teaching about religion.

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Three Kinds of Violence

Animation explaining Johan Galtung’s typology of direct, structural, and cultural peace and violence.

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Misunderstandings

Animation explaining three widespread misunderstandings about religion.

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Religious Nationalism and Secular Nationalism

Animation explaining religious and secular nationalism.

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Traditions in Brief

Buddhism

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Christianity

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Hinduism

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Islam

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Judaism

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