A year ago my dear friend Alice Wood and I were commissioned by Thinking Strings to write a CD-based textbook for them on Religion in America. We got together the end of June and the first part of July to work together (we'd already been working separately). My new desk proved the perfect site for working together as you can see by the photo.
We've already begun uploading draft portions of the text to the Thinking Strings site with the goal of having a nice piece completed for their display at the American Academy of Religion conference in San Diego in November.
This is a great project. Every module (chapter) will focus on a different type of religious tradition in the US, Canada and Mexico. We've divided up the modules so that Alice is responsible for all of the Jewish and Christian traditions and I'm responsble for all of the others including Muslim and Baha’i traditions, Asian traditions, new and alternative traditions, African-based traditions and liberal traditions. We've both having a great time learning and writing about these traditions most of which are outside our primary areas of expertise.
