Over the course of three semesters, anthropology students at MCC, with a grant from Harvard University, have visited a majority of the metro region's non-Judeo-Christian religious institutions. Their extensive research is now on-line at: https://www.monroecc.edu/go/pluralism.
"If the web site was a book," says anthropology Professor David Day, "it would have 278 pages of text and 500 photographs!" Day's students in ANT 202: Human Religious Experience, are providing for those who log on a striking picture of what Harvard Pluralism Project Director Diana Eck calls "a new religious America." Student fieldwork and photographs cover some 55 local religious groups from Armenian Orthodox, Ethiopian Coptic, Janism and Buddhism, to Wiccan and pagan groups. In many cases, students have admitted that their own lives have been deeply affected by their visits to these lesser-known faiths that have taken root on our soil. The MCC site provides a link to Harvard's national Pluralism Project homepage ( https://www.pluralism.org ).
david day
anthropology
09/08/2005 |