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Classroom Connection: Early Belief Systems with NYU's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Becca Horowitz

How do you teach early belief systems? Leon Levy Director of NYU's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures brings us the "lived ancient religion" approach, which focuses on ordinary people's experiences.

We'd love to hear your takeaways, both ideas that stretch your practice and connections to how you teach this topic now. What stands out to you from the session? What are you excited to try?

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  • 7. What ways could we find to explore the lived experience of other early religious traditions, like those of the Egyptians, the Aztecs, the peoples of ancient Africa and India?

    8. What new histories of religion in the long term could we write if we did not consider religious traditions to be structured like Christianity (evolving to a system), but instead viewed with the lived religion approach?

  • in reply to Becca Horowitz

    I think it comes bac to archaeology. Objects left behind by ordinary folks have meaning and perhaps there is more out there.

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