Browse Exhibits (5 total)
Religious Institutions of Tallahassee, Fall 2015
One of the most important realizations a student can have while studying the various religions in the global community is that the local religious community in which they live is an integral part of the global religious environment and things that happen locally can and do have important, regional, state, national, and international implications. One of the slogans to come out of this realization about the relationship of the local and the global in the domain of environmentalism is the phrase “think globally, act locally.” This slogan also speaks to many important aspects of our culture, including business, health, government, and religion. Tallahassee is a religiously diverse community with over 300 different religious institutions representing dozens of faith traditions. This exhibit showcases a few of the Tallahassee religious institutions that make a significant impact on the community in general, and the Florida State University student body in particular. Each page gives a brief history of each institution, describing its heritage in the community, and the ways that it both serves the needs of the members, and the community at large.
Cross-Cultural Diversity Artifacts, Fall 2015
Culture may be described in its broadest sense as all socially patterned, symbolically mediated, learned behavior among humans. It covers everything from technology to aesthetic judgments. Students who would be truly educated must have an appreciation of the interrelatedness of and the diversity within cultural traditions on a regional and global scale. They must also recognize that issues of culture are not limited to the societal level, but include race, class, and gender. Having a multicultural understanding recognizes and reflects the full range of human groupings and cultural perspectives as well as the complex relationships among them. Gaining an understanding of diverse cultures enhances student’s self-understanding and their understanding of contemporary cultural contexts, a context characterized by a rich diversity of cultures and experiences in which the Western European intellectual tradition figures as one among many.
As part of Introduction to World Religions, students engage in a research project where they select one aspect of global religious culture and in the process of researching it, create various documents, images, videos, blogs, and other media which become "artifacts" demonstrating cultural exploration and engagement. As part of Florida State's Multicultural Liberal Studies requirements, students are required to collect these "artifacts," demonstrating their cultural competency. This archive is where many of these "artifacts" are described and stored. Each "artifact" is a lasting example of how students engage and explore the complex religious cultures of the world, and how they come to see their position within that global context.
Sex and Sexuality in Early Christianity, Spring 2016
Is it better to get married or to remain a virgin? Have Christians always thought that homosexuality was a sin? Why does it seem like all heretics are sexual deviants? This exhibit scratches at the surface of the various perspectives on and rhetorical uses of sex, gender, and sexuality in early Christian literature.
As part of the Sex and Sexuality in Early Christianity seminar, students engage in a research project where they select one aspect of sex and sexuality in early Christianity (a figure, a theme, a movement) and, in the process of researching it, create various documents, images, videos, blogs, and other media which become "artifacts" demonstrating cultural exploration and engagement. This archive is where these "artifacts" are stored.
Cross-Cultural Diversity Artifacts, Spring 2016
Culture may be described in its broadest sense as all socially patterned, symbolically mediated, learned behavior among humans. It covers everything from technology to aesthetic judgments. Students who would be truly educated must have an appreciation of the interrelatedness of and the diversity within cultural traditions on a regional and global scale. They must also recognize that issues of culture are not limited to the societal level, but include race, class, and gender. Having a multicultural understanding recognizes and reflects the full range of human groupings and cultural perspectives as well as the complex relationships among them. Gaining an understanding of diverse cultures enhances student’s self-understanding and their understanding of contemporary cultural contexts, a context characterized by a rich diversity of cultures and experiences in which the Western European intellectual tradition figures as one among many.
As part of Introduction to World Religions, students engage in a research project where they select one aspect of global religious culture and in the process of researching it, create various documents, images, videos, blogs, and other media which become "artifacts" demonstrating cultural exploration and engagement. As part of Florida State's Multicultural Liberal Studies requirements, students are required to collect these "artifacts," demonstrating their cultural competency. This archive is where many of these "artifacts" are described and stored. Each "artifact" is a lasting example of how students engage and explore the complex religious cultures of the world, and how they come to see their position within that global context.
Religious Institutions of Tallahassee, Spring 2016
One of the most important realizations a student can have while studying the various religions in the global community is that the local religious community in which they live is an integral part of the global religious environment and things that happen locally can and do have important, regional, state, national, and international implications. One of the slogans to come out of this realization about the relationship of the local and the global in the domain of environmentalism is the phrase “think globally, act locally.” This slogan also speaks to many important aspects of our culture, including business, health, government, and religion. Tallahassee is a religiously diverse community with over 300 different religious institutions representing dozens of faith traditions. This exhibit showcases a few of the Tallahassee religious institutions that make a significant impact on the community in general, and the Florida State University student body in particular. Each page gives a brief history of each institution, describing its heritage in the community, and the ways that it both serves the needs of the members, and the community at large.