Understanding Your Students' Religions: A Guide to Culturally Responsive Practices [Paperback]

This guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a variety of religions as well as atheist practices.?You?will?find that?these?practices as assets to be cultivated.

1. Why Care About Religion? Principles of Religious Literacy  2. African Diaspora Religions  3. Atheist, Agnostic, Humanist, and Anti-religious Groups  4. Baha'I  5. Buddhism  6. Chinese Religions: Falun Gong  7. Chinese Religions: Traditional Chinese Religions  8. Christianity: Overview  9. Christianity: Amish, Mennonite, and other Anabaptist-descended Churches  10. Christianity: Anglican and Episcopal  11. Christianity: Baptist  12. Christianity: Black Churches  13. Christianity: Christian Science  14. Christianity: Jehovah's Witness  15. Christianity: Latter-day Saints  16. Christianity: Lutheran  17. Christianity: Methodist, Moravian, Wesleyan, and Holiness Churches  18. Christianity: Orthodox  19. Christianity: Pentecostal and Holiness  20. Christianity: Presbyterian and Other Reformed Churches  21. Christianity: Quaker (Friends)  22. Christianity: Restorationist (Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ)  23. Christianity: Roman and Eastern Catholic  24. Christianity: Seventh-Day Adventist  25. Christianity: Unitarian Universalist  26. Hinduism: Overview  27. Hinduism: Shaiva  28. Hinduism: Shakta  29. Hinduism: Vaishnava  30. Islam: Overview  31. Islam: Nation of Islam  32. Islam: Shia  33. Islam: Sunni  34. Jainism  35. Judaism: Overview  36. Judaism: Conservative  37. Judaism: OrthlÓ)