Teaching Civic Engagement (AAR Teaching Religious Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (704 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190692995 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pence, Executive Director, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion "If one can truly begin to teach with and through the core principles of civic engagement-ethics and impact, reflection and justice-it is in the religious studies classroom. It develops an original and helpful model to understand the continuum of teaching civic engagement that moves from critical thinking to motivated action. Clingerman and Locklin offer us a valuable contribution of essays that do so with insight, compassion, and power." --Dan Butin, author of Service-Learning in Theory and Practice. Favazza, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Religio
A second section offers chapters focused on specific strategies for teaching civic engagement in religion classrooms, including traditional textual studies, reflective writing, community-based learning, field trips, media analysis, ethnographic methods, direct community engagement and a reflective practice of "ascetic withdrawal." The final section of the volume explores theoretical issues, including the delimitation of the "civic" as a category, connections between local and global in the civic project, the question of political advocacy in the classroom, and the role of normative commitments.Collectively these chapters illustrate the real possibility of connecting the scholarly study of religion with the societies in which we, our students, and our institutions exist. Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic order.In the first section of the book, contributors detail this theoretical model and offer an initial application to the sources and methods that already define much teaching in the disciplines of religious studies and theolog
He has published on different topics related to environmental theology and philosophy, as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning.Reid B. He is the author of Spiritual but Not Religious? (2005); Liturgy of Liberation (2011); and other works in comparative theology, Hindu-Christian studies