Make-Over or Tune-Up: Every Student Needs Religious Instruction

The assumption of our roundtable is that an increasing number of students are in need of religious instruction because they come from a secularized society, meaning a society no longer imbued with Judeo‐Christian values. I respond by acknowledging that there is a great need for providing information about the way Christianity (and Judaism and Islam) functioned in the Middle Ages, while emphasizing that every student needs it: not only just secularized Jews and Christians but also the large number of non‐Western students (particularly those from Asia) who have other religious traditions, and also those students who have had a thorough religious upbringing, because their ideas can seriously lead them astray when applied to medieval societies.