Check this out, Stephen Prothero of Boston University is trying to tweet a course on Major World Religions ::Religion 101, in 140 Characters.
Stephen Prothero is helping world religions make their way onto Twitter this summer, one 140-character tweet at a time.
The Boston University professor of religion is treating his account, sprothero, like a microcourse, posting several tweets on each of what he identifies as the eight major world religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Yoruba tradition, which Mr. Prothero calls the “neglected world religion” from West Africa.
“I liked the idea of doing the world religions in 140 characters,” Mr. Prothero said. “I thought, what a fun challenge that would be.”
Mr. Prothero is in the process of writing a book about these religions, in which he said each religion will have about 30 pages. In academe, he said, such a short space for a major religion is “scandalous,” but he’s trying to prove it can be done well, both in print and online in hundreds of characters, too.
As I am currently teaching an online course in Major World Religions, I wonder if I have have my students interact with this at all. Perhaps weigh his tweets against the book, or something similar. Too interesting to ignore completely.
