Questions tagged [religious-issues]
On issues that arise in an academic setting because of the religious beliefs held by an individual or institution.
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Leading a campus ministry group addressing pornography addiction while also serving as a professor
Context: I am a math professor at a small Christian college in the US.
Shortly after starting my undergraduate education, I made choices that lead me to an addiction to internet pornography, and that ...
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As a Muslim student, how to refuse to shake the opposite sex's hand without offending them?
I am a postgraduate student and will start my studies in Europe in the next two months. As you may know, it is prohibited in Islam to touch people of the opposite sex (regardless of their faith) ...
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Is it appropriate to ask a student who wears the full-face veil to speak louder?
The kind of full-face veil I'm thinking of is the Niqāb - it covers the entire face except the eyes.
I don't have any ideological objections to people who choose to wear the full-face veil. However, ...
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What to include in a Curriculum Vitae when a University asks for Religious Background
I am applying to a Christian University, and they have requested that in my CV I include my religious background. I have no issue with doing this, so I plan to simply make the appropriate additions to ...
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Citing books, with unproved facts, in the introduction part of a research paper
Research community accepts a statement as fact in any domain of knowledge if and only if it has a proof. I am asking about domains for which proof is necessary.
But the same fact may present in age ...
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Is it proper to discuss unrelated subjects during class to increase interactivity?
It is common that students may experience monotony if the instructor continuously teaches. And there are many ways to grab attention.
I am particularly interested in knowing whether it is a proper ...
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Is the promotion of meditation activities by my university a form of religious discrimination?
My university constantly promotes activities of meditation, mindfulness and other "new age" activities inspired from some eastern spiritualities (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism). The ...
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How do I deal with a candidate mentioning God twelve times in their application?
My group (engineering) is highly multicultural and diverse. Some of my students come from adversarial ethnic/religious groups, so I made it “set in stone” that politics and religion do not belong in ...
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Does dedicating to god undermine my aspiration on research in-front of review panel?
I need to submit and present well documented research reports of mine to a panel of experts. It is well known that there is a custom of including dedication page to any significant reports.
I want to ...
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Stepping around student religiosity
In the not-too-distant past, I was teaching a course on cognition and language. One class focused on language and communication in different species. A student later emailed me to ask a number of ...
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Discrimination against theists by atheists in academia
Several times I read or heard about the claim that there is a discrimination against theists in academia by atheists. For example the german newspaper ZEIT Campus ONLINE cites an anthropologist Robert ...
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Is it proper etiquette to keep religious content on official course page?
Is the course site property of the university or the person engaging it such as a teacher, teaching assistant etc.,?
Is it proper etiquette to add religious contents such as quotes from religious ...
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I'm in a religious country, and my religious supervisor is praying. What should I do?
My supervisor and all his other doctoral students are practicing religious, while I am not, I am "non-religious".
We never discuss religion together, but sometimes they all leave to pray together, ...
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Do private religious institutions ever consider hiring someone clearly not affiliated with said religion for a faculty position? [duplicate]
I am wondering if private religious universities consider hiring faculty members who are clearly not affiliated with said religion. For example, someone who is clearly Muslim applying to a Jesuit ...
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Should I explain that I cannot finish my current master due to religious discrimination when applying for another graduate program?
I am currently enrolled in a master’s program in the Middle East, which does not seem to be possible to finish / worth finishing for various reasons. The main problem is the lack of research ...
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