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Zusatztext 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. Clingerman and Locklin offer us a valuable contribution of essays that do so with insight, compassion, and power. Informationen zum Autor Forrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Ohio Northern University. He is co-editor of Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (2013) and Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (2011). He has published on different topics related to environmental theology and philosophy, as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning.Reid B. Locklin holds a joint appointment in Christianity and Culture at Saint Michael's College and the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Spiritual but Not Religious? (2005); Liturgy of Liberation (2011); and other works in comparative theology, Hindu-Christian studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Klappentext 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 theology. 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. The contributing authors model new ways of engaging questions of civic belonging and social activism in the religion classroom, belying the stereotype of the ivory tower intellectual. Zusammenfassung Teaching Civic Engagement offers a new conceptual model, an examination of theoretical questions and concerns, and a variety of concrete teaching strategies to assist faculty in engaging questions of civic belonging and social activism in religion classrooms. The book explores the civic relevance of the academic study of religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction Section I: What are the Dimensions of Teaching Civic Engagement in the Religious Studies or Theology Classroom? Chapter 1: Reid B. Locklin, with Ellen Posman, Discourse, Democracy, and the Many Faces of Civic Engagement: Four Guiding Objectives for the University Classroom Chapter 2: Ellen Posman, with Reid B. Locklin, Sacred Sites and Staging Grounds: The Four Guiding Objectives of Civic Engagement in the Religion Classroom Section II: What Practical Strategies and Questions Emerge from Teaching Civic Engagement in Religious Studies and Theology? Chapter 3: Melissa Stewart, Teaching for Civic Engagement: Insights from a Two-Year Workshop Chapter 4: Marianne Delaporte, Giving and Receiving Hospitality during Community Engagement Courses Chapter 5: Rebekka King, Civic Engagement in the Heart of the City Chapter 6: Hans Wiersma, Engaging Media and Messages in the Religion Classroom Chapter 7: Phil Wingeier-Rayo, Service ...
