Teaching interreligious encounters /

'Teaching Interreligious Encounters' is a volume of essays that explores various issues related to practical and theoretical facets of teaching across multiple religious traditions, including comparative theology and theologies of religious pluralism.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Academy of Religion
Other Authors: Pugliese, Marc A. (Editor), Hwang, Alexander Y. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Series:Teaching religious studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Series; Teaching Interreligious Encounters; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction- Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang; PART I: Theorizing Encounters: Paradigms, Exemplars, Caveats, and Strange Bedfellows; 1. Pluralism and Power: Considering What Counts inthe Discourse on Religions- Jeannine Hill Fletcher; 2. Masao Abe and Comparative Theology- Leo D. Lefebure; 3. The "Us- Them" Dilemma: The Need for Reflexivity whileTeaching Interreligious Encounters- J. Derrick Lemons; 4. Pluralistic Pedagogy for Pluralism- Hsiao- Lan Hu.
  • 5. Maintaining Neutrality while Teaching ReligiousStudies-Robert McKim6. Interreligious Literacy and Scriptural Reasoning: SomeHermeneutical, Anthropological, Pedagogical, and ExperientialReflections- Marianne Moyaert; 7. Engaging Radical Alterity: Theological Pluralism, InterreligiousDialogue, and Encountering "Reality"- Louis Komjathy; PART II: Designing Encounters: Teaching Interreligious Encounters; 8. Challenges in Teaching Islamic Studies in Western Universities:The Problem of Streamlining Islam forUndergraduates- Im ranali Panjwani.
  • 9. Teaching Interreligious Encounter: A Primer onUndergraduate Course Design- Hans Gustafson10. Teaching Comparative Political Theology: Text Selectionand Sample Texts for a Course on Christianity and ChineseReligions- Joshua R. Brown; 11. Using Hevruta to Do and Teach Comparative Theology-Devorah Schoenfeld and Jeanine Diller; PART III: Textual Encounters: Methods, Texts, and Traditions; 12. Teaching Exodus Interreligiously- Daniel Maozand Allen Jorgenson; 13. Interreligious Teachings and the Qur'an: The Art ofInterpretation- Hussam S. Timani.
  • 14. Reading Ignatius in Kathmandu: Toward a New Pedagogyof Interreligious Dialogue- Thomas Cattoi15. Introducing the Bhagavad Gītā as Theological SourceText: Text and Commentary, Teacher andStudent- Jonathan Edelmann; PART IV: Practical Encounters: Case Studies, Site Visits, and Immersion Programs; 16. Sacred Spaces and Interreligious Learning-Sheryl A. Kujawa- Holbrook; 17. Teaching Interreligious Encounters through Case Studies-Emily Sigalow and Wendy Cadge; 18. The Case Study Method as a Means of Teaching aboutPluralism- Brendan W. Randall and Whittney Barth.
  • 19. A Contextual Model for Interreligious Learning- MarianneFarina, csc and Robert W. McChesney, sjPART V: Formational Encounters: Preparation forVocation and Citizenship; 20. Teaching Interfaith Leadership- Eboo Patel and Cassie Meyer; 21. Teaching Interspiritual Dialogue to Health CareProfessionals: Reflections on a Course for PharmacyStudents- Kelly R. Arora; 22. The Mystic Traveler in a Global Spiritual Age-Patricia Zimmerman Beckman; Index.