Two Resources for Teaching Religion in the Classroom

Here are two great resources for incorporating religion into your curriculum. One is an excellent podcast about religion called The Classical Ideas Podcast and the other is a terrific youtube channel about religion called Religion for Breakfast.

Classical Ideas Podcast

Gregory J. Soden, a doctoral student in social studies education, hosts a podcast about religion.

Some of his topics are ideal for the classroom.  For example, Episode 74 reviews the basic beliefs, practices, important people, and specific goals of the Sikh religion. His guests are two prominent Sikhs,  Dr. Harbaksh & Jasmine Sangha, and Dr. Chetan and Ranjana Hans.

Another episode deals with Shintoism.  Eric Lancaster is Soden's guest.  He is an instructor of Japanese at the University of Missouri and an instructor of religious studies at Columbia College.

Soden tackles Toaism in Episode 57 with Dr. Pablo Mendoza, Assistant to the President for Social Equity at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught Cheng Man-Ch'ing (Zhang Manqing) Yang-style Tai Chi Ch'uan (Taijiquan).

The first 20 episodes of the podcasts (and eps 30 & 64) include local people in Columbia, MO  where Soden is a graduate student, introduce some basics of their lives within certain traditions. Those episodes are often overlooked now, but they are all really cool introductory episodes about the basics of many religions.

Religion for Breakfast


Religious scholar, Andrew Mark Henry,  hosts a terrific Youtube Channel about religion.  His videos are a little like Crash Course. They are short, to the point, and engaging.


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