{"id":7722,"date":"2016-03-04T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2016-03-15T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:06:07","slug":"religious-studies-speaker-enlightens-morningside-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7722","title":{"rendered":"Religious Studies Speaker Enlightens Morningside Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>By Rachel Potter \u2013<\/strong> Morningside College hosts the annual Goldstein Lecture with featured religious speakers.\u00a0 This year\u2019s speaker was Dr. Sarah Imhoff speaking on \u201cThe pulpit and the classroom: Jew, Christians, Muslims, and the Study of Religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Religious studies scholars study people of specific religions. They look at how God affects the life of the believers. Dr. Imhoff touched on how there is no such thing as \u201cthe Jewish experience.\u201d\u00a0 This simply means that the Jewish experience is no different than any other person\u2019s experience. There is no essence of Judaism, but religious studies scholars try to figure out what they do and feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cI think Dr. Sarah Imhoff\u2019s main point to her lecture was that religious studies is more about the study of people than it is of the religion. They want to find out when, where, why, and how these people are thinking,\u201d said Madison Harpenau, a student at Morningside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Imhoff gave the example of the Islamic faith: those who are Muslims believe they are a good and peaceful religion, and ISIS and the Taliban are not real Muslims. Islam should not be thought of as a dangerous religion because the hate groups are not really Muslims because they do not follow the Quran when it says, \u201cMuslims are not allowed to kill innocent people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cI am really amazed at how misunderstood the Islamic community is. I think that if we had more religious studies scholars teaching the common citizen what is really in the Quran, then there would be fewer stereotypes. Dr. Imhoff made excellent point in her speech,\u201dsaid\u00a0Morningside sophomore Myla Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">When Christians kill doctors at Plan Parenthood in the name of Jesus, many Christians would say that this is not what Christianity truly looks like. Every religion has extremists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cI think that religions either misinterpreted their text or take it to far. Religious studies scholars are trying to clear the misconceptions about these different religions\u201d said Alyssa Ehlers, a Morningside freshman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Religion became commonly popular in the United States in 1960 during the Cold War. It was thought to be American to have religion. The citizens started to see religious beliefs being taught in the classrooms. Religious scholars where teaching about religion, but they were not telling someone how to act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWe need to slow down and listen to our scholarly sources, and you will be more informed about different religions,\u201d said Dr. Imhoff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Potter \u2013 Morningside College hosts the annual Goldstein Lecture with featured religious speakers.\u00a0 This year\u2019s speaker was Dr. Sarah Imhoff speaking on \u201cThe pulpit and the classroom: Jew, Christians, Muslims, and the Study of Religion.\u201d Religious studies scholars study people of specific religions. 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