I’d like to focus my project on how secular and religious community centers and institutions incorporate each other into their programs/ceremonies/activities/outreach/etc.
For example:
How do Christian churches incorporate Muslims, the secular, and Hindus?
How do Islamic centers incorporate Christians, the secular, and Hindus?
How do secular community centers incorporate Christians, Muslims, and Hindus?
How do Hindu temples incorporate Christians, Muslims, and the secular?
That’s basically the crux of what I’d be asking authorities from each respective institution. I imagine I’d just interview one person from each of the four institutions to serve as a voice for that perspective.
I’d like to combine this video with a project from my Religion course at Hunter (Honors Seminar w/ B. Sproul). That project is a 35-page research paper on a related topic that looks at a researcher’s (Jonathan Fox) system which attempts to quantify religious tolerance across the globe. Then I ask the question, ‘what insights are already in practice in these tolerant places that can be put into practice in institutions like [those mentioned above]?’
The JRN portion of this project would be a less academic piece that would help connect the research with a more intimate and applied view of the issue, and it would allow the subjects to speak for themselves w/o narration.
backup idea: Thoughts on Trump from a German Jew who survived Hitler (my 98 year old Great Aunt). Not sure if she’d cooperate; wanted to get approval before bringing it up to her.