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Teaching Religion and Violence: AAR Teaching Religious Studies

Editat de Brian K. Pennington
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mai 2012
Many people now see religious violence as one of the defining characteristics of the modern world. Instructors are often asked about it in their courses that deal with religion. Classroom discussion of violence committed in the name of religion can either open the door to a more subtle appreciation of complex and divisive social realities or allow students to display the kind of ignorance, prejudice, and recalcitrance that can derail critical analysis. The etiology of religious violence requires the kind of careful distinctions that instructors must work hard to communicate even in the best of classroom circumstances. Teaching Religion and Violence is designed to help instructors to equip students to think critically about religious violence, particularly in the multicultural classroom. The book is organized into two sections. The first, "Traditions," addresses topics and methods appropriate for teaching violence in particular religious traditions. Each essay provides a solid starting point for the instructor developing a new course on violence in one tradition. The overarching aims of the second section, "Approaches," are to suggest alternative rubrics for initiating or furthering discussion of religion and violence and to aid instructors in demonstrating the wide applicability of the questions and concepts developed here. The volume as a whole and each of the essays is firmly grounded in the theoretical literature on religion and violence, in the theory of pedagogy, and in the collective experience of its authors.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195372427
ISBN-10: 0195372425
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria AAR Teaching Religious Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Teaching Religion and Violence is a welcome and timely publication. Pennington has brought together authors who are both teachers and theorists of religion. The books strength is that it concisely deals with both what the religions say about violence and offers a selection of pedagogical approaches in teaching violence and religion for non-traditions-based courses. The essays will benefit instructors whose students have limited understanding of religion, or who are enchanted by the medias interpretations of religiously violent events.

Notă biografică

Brian K. Pennington is Associate Professor of Religion at Maryville College.