{"id":395,"date":"2015-04-09T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-04-09T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:21:33","slug":"senior-op-ed-highlights-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/2015\/04\/09\/senior-op-ed-highlights-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior op-ed highlights Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joey Oteng ’15 (image via UVM Orientation website)<\/p><\/div>\n

In a recent article in the Vermont Cynic<\/a>, UVM’s student newspaper, senior religion major Joey Oteng discussed religion and religion classes, and asked\u00a0his readers to join the conversations so prevalent here at 481 Main Street.<\/p>\n

Joey’s piece, “Why Religion Should be Discussed,”<\/a>\u00a0highlights some of the key questions\u00a0religion majors are asked to tackle: religion in the public sphere; appropriation, adaptation, and adoption within and across religious traditions; how to talk about a subject fraught with politics and that might\u00a0transgress mores of “polite dinner conversation.”<\/p>\n

He wrote:<\/p>\n

“We should want to study religion because it is all around us. Daily rituals as simple of rolling over every morning to check your phone, to mindful practices of yoga or even the culturally appropriated Hindu spring festival of Holi repurposed as secular color runs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do read his whole piece, and then be sure to follow his advice: join us in the conversation.<\/p>\n

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