面向六年级，五年级和四年级学生开放. The course provides an introduction to the Qur’an in the original Arabic and explores the classical language in the context of Muslim culture more broadly, 包括书法. Students explore a language that is more than two millennia old and that remains among the most widely used languages in the contemporary world. Students emerge from the course with a basic ability to read, 写, 然后输入阿拉伯文字, recognize a host of key Qur’anic terms and concepts, and parse the 意义s and grammar of the Qur’an in Arabic using online tools. The course prepares students for future Arabic studies and 文化 immersion 经验s but does not fulfill a 易胜博app安卓下载 language requirement. 

Taught jointly by the 宗教研究与哲学 部门 and the 历史与社会科学s  部门, this course surveys the histories and cultures that have shaped world civilizations and supports students in gaining the requisite skills, 跨文化知识, 以及在人文学科取得成功的经验. 全球范围, the course surveys peoples and histories of Africa, 亚洲, 美洲, 和地中海. 研究的社会包括吴哥, 雅典, 巴比伦, 卡霍基亚, 奇琴伊察, 中国, 埃及, 伟大的津巴布韦, Kilwa, 库什, 印度, 日本, 韩国, 马里, 罗马, 约鲁巴人, 和更多的. The course considers a plurality of religious and philosophical traditions, 包括佛教, 基督教, 儒家思想, 道教, 印度教, 伊斯兰教, 耆那教, 犹太教, 神道教, 锡克教, 和伏都教. The course develops students’ skills for note-taking, 重要的调查, 学术对话, 分析性写作. In order to prepare students for the Upper School history research paper requirements, one term will feature assessments specifically designed to help students discover, 解释, 评估, 合成, 并引用学术资源. 

面向六年级，五年级和四年级学生开放. Drawing on the ideas of leading scholar-practitioners of religion, 建设和平, 冲突转化, this course offers students a deep dive into the history of the crisis in Israel–Palestine. Students gain perspective on the origins of the crisis and its rippling contemporary impacts by engaging with historical and theological resources as well as the lived examples of community builders, 教育工作者, 各宗教间的领导人, 和平活动家. Through exposure to multiple perspectives and 解释ive frameworks, students learn strategies for holding the tensions in divergent historical and theological narratives. The course encourages students to develop cognitive tools to engage insightfully and empathetically with themes such as intergenerational suffering and collective grief. 在整个课程中, we ask questions fundamental to the human 经验: How can we encourage people to affirm and express their common humanity across disparate identities and ideological positions? What are the impacts of ritualized gestures and liturgy on transforming conflict? How do platforms for 真理-telling and 正义-seeking contribute to 建设和平? In p艺术 by examining how violent ethnic conflicts have been transformed, we draw lessons applicable to peace-oriented activism in the Israel–Palestine context.

面向六年级，五年级和四年级学生开放. This course offers an opportunity for students to delve deeper into the connections, 影响, and encounters between adherents of different spiritual traditions in the contemporary world. We explore the concept of the public sphere and investigate how religious values impact policy debates and law-making in a global context. We consider how religious identity is used as a wedge to exacerbate political conflicts but how common religious values can also be used as a bridge to engender reconciliation across divides. We survey various settings for interfaith encounters and consider ways in which leaders of spiritual traditions engage cooperatively in 社会 正义 movements. Themes covered include conceptions of religious authority, attitudes toward violence and interreligious relations, 美德伦理, 以及易胜博app安卓下载公共利益和自由的理念. We also consider the guidance these spiritual traditions offer for living in harmony with the natural world and each other. We investigate how adherents of the world’s major spiritual traditions live out their convictions in pluralistic societies and how traditions have been adapted or re解释ed in light of changing circumstances. The course fosters a systematic and critically-disciplined understanding of the influence of religion in politics, 广泛的构思. 从理论上讲, the course introduces students to 社会 science frameworks for studying religion and the phenomenological study of religious thought, 意义, 经验, 和行为. Students have opportunities to work collaboratively on projects and pursue original research.