Week 1 Resources
Peer Interviews
Peer Interviews: Partner Questions
Assigned Materials
Intro to Dialogue
Aspen Institute’s Many People, Many Faiths, One Nation: A Primer on Religious Pluralism
Explore this timeline of the History of Religious Freedom in the United States
Take the “U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz” from the Pew Research Center
The 10 Dialogue Principles - Leonard Swidler
The Constitute Project Link
Take a look at constitutions from around the world to compare and contract with your own. This website allows you search other constitutions, look at common themes, and search for key concepts. You can even compare any constitution here!
Below are links to the full text of the key government documents of the United States.
Declaration of Independence Link
The Declaration of Independence was written to explain the colonists’ rights to revolution. This document was intended to unite the colonies in their formal succession from Great Britain. This link will allow you to explore the full document as well as learn about how it was constructed.
U.S. Constitution Link
Take a look at the United States constitution and compare and contrast it to your own constitution, or constitutions around the world. Think about what values you can find that are similar and in what concepts are different.
The National Constitution Center offers you an interactive way to read through the US constitution similar to the way you were able to explore constitutional themes when you visited the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Bill of Rights Link
The Bill of Rights contains the first ten amendments of the US Constitution. These ten amendments define the US citizens rights in relation to their government. Discover more about the document and the freedoms it protects by visiting the National Archives.
Amendments are changes that are made to the constitution. To prevent arbitrary changes to the constitution, the amendment process is strenuous and only 27 of such amendments have been approved since 1787. The process to add an amendment to the constitution requires the amendment be brought to congress and receive a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. Amendments 11- 27 can be read here. You can read more about the amendment process by visiting here.
Islam
Introduction from Growing Up Muslim: Muslim College Students in America Tell Their Life Stories. Cornell University Press, 2014.
Christianity
A Worldwide Tradition - Harvard University Pluralism Project
“Introduction to Christianity” by Andrew Henry
Judaism
God, Torah, and Israel - Harvard University’s Pluralism Project (PDF HERE)
“Introduction to Jewish Traditions” by Andrew Henry
Interfaith Cooperation in Judaism Interfaith Youth Core Podcast
“How to Say the Shabbat Blessings” - Reform Judaism
Extra Resources
Why now is the time to find power in "otherness" podcast
Making sense of the study abroad experience
Layers of Identity p2 t podcast
Resources from Lecture with Mary Ward-Bucher:
Indigenous groups in the U.S. & Change over time
Map compiled from historical research on ship logs during the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Video showing immigration streams into the U.S.
Community Service Sites
https://brighthopebaptist.org/