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Lilly Scholarships in Religion for Journalists

Sample religion courses

These are just some of the hundreds of religion courses taught at accredited colleges and universities and eligible for scholarship study.

African American Religious History
African American Spirituality
Ancient Greek Religion
Ancient Religious Rhetoric
Apocalyptic Writings
Apostles' Creed Today
Art of Evangelism
Beginning Greek
Beginning Hebrew
Biblical Wisdom Literature
Biotechnology and Globalization
Bonhoeffer: Life and Thought
Buddhism
Byzantine Christian Tradition
Catholicism in the Early Modern Era
Christian Ethics
Christian Formation of Children
Christianity and African-American Enslavement
Comparative Scriptural Exegesis
Creative Arts and the Bible
Critical Issues in Religious Thought
Depth Psychology and Theology
Discipleship in Young Adults
Disease and Healing in Religious Traditions of Asia
DNA, Evolution and the Soul
Doctrine and Polity of American Methodism
Doctrine of the Trinity From Origen to Augustine
Doctrines of Revelation
Eastern Religions & Their Construction in the West
Ethics and Health Professions
Exegetical Method
Gospels
Heaven and Hell in Christian Testimony
Hinduism
Historical Geography
History and Theology of the Lutheran Confessions
History, Literature, and Religion f Ancient Israel
Homiletics
Idea of Sainthood In Christianity
India's Religious Worlds
Indigenous Religion
Introduction to Comparative Religion
Inventing and Discovering "Popular Religion"
Islam
Japanese Religious Tradition
Jesus and History
Jewish Mystical Tradition
Judaic Literature
Liturgical Elements in the New Testament
Medieval and Reformation History
Migration and Religion in U.S. Society
Modern Culture and Evangelism
Modern Jewish Thought
Modern Judaic Thought
Mysticism
New Testament
Old Testament
Patterns of Preaching
Pauline Literature
Pentateuch
Person and Practice of Ministry
Psalms
Religion & Post Modernism
Religion & The Civil Rights Movement
Religion and Art
Religion and Pop Culture
Religion and the Conquest of America
Religions of the World
Religious Pluralism, Christian Theologies
Religious Vocation
Research in Medieval Canon Law
Ritual and Early Christian Meals
Roman Catholic Polity, Church and Sacraments
Science and the Religious Experience
Sexuality Issues for Ministry
Shamanism
Sociology of Religion
Spiritual Life
Spirituality and Everyday Life
Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations
Systematic Theology
Theology and Contemporary Literature
Theology and Ecology of the Family
Theology and Film
Theories of Atonement
Topics in American Religious History
Values in the Workplace: Ethics from 9 to 5
Wesleyan Tradition
Women, Abolition and Religion
Women, Nature and Religion
Writings of Luther
Zen Masters
Zen Meditation and Dialogue

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Reporting on Religion

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Religion Newswriters presents a guide to the basics of reporting on religion, including important resources and advice about potential pitfalls. Faith and ethics intersect with every topic journalists cover these days. This guide will help veteran journalists, rookies, radio and television reporters and online media providers add insight, balance and context to their stories.

THE BASICS
  What is religion news?
The case for covering religion
The case for religion specialists
Trends in religion news
What about religion on other beats?
Do you need to be religious to report on religion?
Who makes a great religion journalist?

BEST PRACTICES
  Finding the right tools
Get oriented
Get out
Preaching, teaching & proselytizing
Getting titles right
Redefine the religion beat
Rely on people power
Report news and nuance
Remain calm amid conflict
Embrace diversity
Judge not, lest ye be judged
It's a miracle!
Sharpen your pencils
Columns and the brave new world of blogging

RESOURCES
  Numbers
Experts
Web sites
Books and yearbooks

A ROUNDUP OF RELIGIONS
The world’s largest belief systems

The big three
  Christianity
  Roman Catholics
Evangelicals
Mainline Protestants
Pentecostals
Orthodox
African-American
Hispanic
Asian
Judaism
Islam
Beyond the big three
  Hinduism
Buddhism
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Sikhism
New Religious Movements
Visiting places of worship

RELIGION OUTSIDE THE BOX
  Spirituality
Ethics and values
Interfaith efforts
Religion in the public square

ISSUES FOR REPORTERS
AND EDITORS
  Revealing personal beliefs
Reporting on people you disagree with
Conflicts of interest
Ethics


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