Multifaith educational resources
Multifaith Education is an element of social cohesion and enables dialogue across cultural boundaries. Education is the arena where we build the future of our nation and our social cohesion. Understanding different religions and cultures helps to build a confident, secure nation which looks ahead to the future with hope. The word multifaith is used to mean “many faiths.” Multifaith education means education about different faiths – which might take place in an school environment, a social environment or among people of the same faith.
Multifaith Education: Recommended Resources
The following resources are recommended by Auburn Seminary for use in multifaith education in seminaries. Contact Justus Baird, curator of the list, to suggest additional resources.
- Building Bridges Seminar resources, from the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Includes sourcebooks of Islamic and Christian texts.
- Faith in the Five Boroughs: series of 4 minute films about lesser-known religious communities in New York City.
- Odyssey Networks video collections. Many useful, short videos on youtube. One example: Rabbi Irwin Kula on “Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life”—on the need to find a method for addressing disharmony and complexity.
- Embracing Interfaith Cooperation: DVD and workbook of Eboo Patel seminars.
- From the Pluralism Project at Harvard: (i) Directory of Interfaith Initiatives and Resources in Theological Education; (ii) Case Studies of Religious Leadership in a Multifaith Context (well-developed real-life cases that can be easily used in single-faith or mixed faith learning communities to teach religious leadership or about religious pluralism). They have a dozen or more cases developed – contact Ellie Pierce for more info; (ii) Directory of religious centers. Explore the diversity of religious communities in your own neighborhood; and a Leadership Seminar on Building an Interfaith Community.
- JewBu.net: case studies designed to enhance the ways theological and religious educators teach about the changing religious landscape in America (using Jewish and Buddhist interactions as a starting point).
- Unity Productions Foundation has several films which can be used in part or in their entirety as a discussion-starter. See particularly, Talking Through Walls,which deals with multifaith problem-solving. Some of these films also have their own educational websites.
- Ravel Unravel: a series of almost 1,000 short videos by individual about their own faith journey by Project Interfaith. Curriculum guides for using the videos in university and seminary settings are available. Learners can upload their own personal stories of faith to add to the collection.
- Experiential Learning Techniques from Face to Face / Faith to Faith: 16 different experiential education methodologies developed over 11 years of Auburn's international multifaith teen leadership program. These methods were developed for informal, camp-like settings but can be easily adapted for classroom use.
- Scarboro Missions, a Canadian Catholic group, has curated and created a variety of curricula and other multifaith education resources (see links at top of the page).
Source: http://www.auburnseminary.org/mfresources