World Belief Systems--How to approach in public school?

[Shawn LaTorre]

Would you prefer to approach the teaching of world belief systems chronologically or geographically? I was assigned to the course before I had any time to create the syllabus and I chose to begin in Europe with early Greek and Roman beliefs there. Then one of my students, who was brilliant on the topics, asked if we were going to also include ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. She contributed a fantastic web quest on those, but I began to ponder how best to organize a course like this in the future...The highly visual, colorful UK books that I ordered came in at the end of the year, so we did not use texts at all. I noticed the texts were simply organized by belief systems without regard to time or place. Any thoughts on this?

[Ryan Goble]

Well, first off, have you seen this?

From: http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

I guess this is so hard to do - I mean you're looking at major world religions that exist today - Not how these systems are related to mythologies from the regions, yes or no? History, English or Humanaties setting? What grade?