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Senior Site Visit to Experience Korean Christianity

On Sunday, December 8, students in Dr. Shira Kohn’s American Religious History visited In2 Church to attend a service in Korean as part of their course of study.
After learning about faith communities in the United States from the Puritans of Salem through post-1965 Sikh migration through a recent presentation by scholar and Dalton parent Dr. Simran Singh P’34 P’36, the students connected elements of faith and community they read about over the course of the semester to the worship they observed at the Korean Church. Students were asked to observe elements of music, use of various scriptures, and consider the presentation of faith in both visual and aural forms throughout the service before a class debrief. As Arav Mehta ‘25, one participant noted, “The experience was illuminating and I appreciated how welcoming the church was including us, despite preaching in a different language.” Students in the class also visited a variety of religious institutions, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a Quaker meeting, the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and historic synagogues of the Jewish Lower East Side to conduct ethnographic studies and consider how different faiths in America worship and build community. 

Submitted by Dr. Shira Kohn
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