On Teaching Religion collects the best of Jonathan Z. Smith's essays and lectures into one volume.

In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. Such

Teaching Religion and Violence is designed to help instructors to equip students to think critically about religious violence, particularly in the multicultural

Samuel Fleischacker defends what the Enlightenment called 'revealed religion': religions that regard a certain text or oral teaching as sacred, as wholly author