Teaching Islam

Using PSAs (Public Service Announcements) to Alter Perceptions About Islam: Students in “Arabs & Muslims in the Media”

Debra Majeed
Professor of Religious Studies
Beloit College

Lack of awareness about what Islam is and how its followers are religiously motivated to act, coupled with heightened tensions during the 2016 presidential campaign about the patriotism of American Muslims, led me to offer “Arabs and Muslims in the Media” as Read more →

Teaching about Sectarian Differences in Islam

Meena Sharify-Funk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair Religion and Culture Department
Wilfrid Laurier University

Due to the diversity of Muslims in the southern Ontario region, my classes on Islam always bring together students from a variety of different sectarian, legalistic as well as interpretive, understandings of Islam. For instance, in. Read more →