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Religious movies and religious literacy. While remaining thoughtful when watching religious movies is important, remember that films are rarely perfectly religiously literate or religiously illiterate. Most often, it’s a little bit of both. They may show a nuanced portrayal of one community and also perpetuate stereotypes of another.
Teaching About Religion. By Freedom Forum. “Religious Studies are essential for understanding the role of religion in public life, negotiating differences in the public square and forging public policies that serve the common good. Through the deliberate and thoughtful study of religion in historic and cultural contexts, students will be ...
Discover 20 facts about the First Amendment that most people don't know. 1. The First Amendment was originally the third. There is a saying that the First Amendment is first for a reason. That reason is not, as the saying implies, that it was considered the most important when it was adopted. The fact is that the originally proposed first and ...
CBS News moderators Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan asked about a range of topics, including the economy, immigration, national security, abortion, health care and international affairs. Amid the debate, the candidates also raised issues related to the First Amendment. Said Vance, "The most sacred right under the United States democracy is ...
Religious literacy is technically the “ability to discern and analyze the intersections of religion with social, political and cultural life,” a definition developed by scholar Diane Moore and adopted by the American Academy of Religion, a scholarly association. In other words, it means understanding the beliefs, practices and history of ...
Here are 15 literary works that have been banned, restricted, censored or challenged over the years. 1. Various Shakespeare plays including “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Merchant of Venice” and “Twelfth Night”. William Shakespeare’s 16th and early 17th century plays have been adapted into books and taught in many junior and high school ...
The First Amendment is part of the United States Constitution. It protects freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to petition the government. For this article, we’ll focus on the part about religion. The First Amendment says the government can’t make laws about setting up a religion ...
The petition failed. In 1988, city leaders in Savannah, Georgia, asked film company Universal Pictures not to show “The Last Temptation of Christ” over concerns about the treatment of religious content, but the film opened anyway. Federal government-banned movies . Few movies have been banned by the U.S. federal government. But some have.
Students of color believe their speech is less protected. While a majority of college students express confidence that the First Amendment protects “people like them,” Black students in particular feel much less protected. Students say the campus climate stifles free expression, yet speech on campus is making nearly 1 in 5 feel unsafe.
In 2012, the public radio program and podcast “This American Life” detailed efforts by a company called Journatic that was producing pink slime – and selling it to major news outlets. Journatic rebranded itself as Locality Labs after the report. A 2019 Columbia Journalism Review report found more than 450 pink slime websites in the U.S.