The Curriculum
Nobody Suppressed This. The Architecture of Religious Education Did It Automatically — and Here Is Exactly How to Verify That for Yourself We have written about suppression. We have named the actors, traced the moments, documented the erasure. That work is necessary. But there is a version of this story that is more useful — and more disturbing — because it requires no villains. You do not need a conspiracy to make something disappear from the curriculum. You only need a structure. Structures produce outcomes without intention.
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Nobody Suppressed This. The Architecture of Religious Education Did It Automatically — and Here Is Exactly How to Verify That for Yourself We have written about suppression. We have named the actors, traced the moments, documented the erasure. That work is necessary. But there is a version of this story that is more useful — and more disturbing — because it requires no villains. You do not need a conspiracy to make something disappear from the curriculum. You only need a structure. Structures produce outcomes without intention. The outcome in this case is that a student can complete a full undergraduate degree in religious studies at a major Western university — reading primary sources, writing research papers, sitting examinations — and never encounter the sentence: the theological architecture of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was substantially inherited from Zoroastrianism.
Topics and source signals
Primary sources detected
New Testament · Quran
Scholars detected
Mary Boyce · Albert de Jong