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Textbook Reading, Juergensmeyer, pp. 3-15.
Discussion One: Course, Syllabus, and Textbooks
About the Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Supplimental Information:
Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Extra Credit Reading: Bernard Lewis, Crisis of Islam: Holy War, Unholy Terror (Extra credit questionairre will be provided upon request; see syllabus for details).
Discussion Two: Religion, Religious Worldviews, and the Abrahamic Faiths (The Scope of the Class)
 Practice review-quizzes covering Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [here] (Pearson/Prentice Hall website corresponding with Hopfe, Lewis M. Religions of the World. rev. by Mark R. Woodward. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2006.)
Discussion Three: Religion and Violence - "The Meaning of Religious Terrorism," pp. 3-10. Discussion Four: "Seeing Inside Cultures of Violence," pp. 10-15.
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