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Print Price: $109.00

Format:
Hardback
296 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190677565

Publication date:
September 2017

Imprint: OUP US

Teaching Interreligious Encounters

Edited by Marc A. Pugliese and Alex Y. Hwang

Series : AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series

In Teaching Interreligious Encounters, editors Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang have gathered together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholar-teachers to explore the pedagogical issues that occur at the intersection of different religious traditions.

This volume is both a theoretical and practical guide for new teachers as well as seasoned scholars. It breaks the pedagogy of interreligious encounters down into five distinct components. In the first part, essays explore the theory of teaching these encounters; in the second, essays discuss course design. The parts that follow engage practical ideas for teaching textual analysis, practice, and real-world application.

Despite their disciplinary, contextual, and methodological diversity, these essays share a common vision for the learning goals and outcomes of teaching interreligious encounters. This is a much needed resource for any teacher participating in these conversations.

Readership : Teachers of religious pluralism and the intersection of multiple religious traditions, professors and students of religion, American Academy of Religion members.

Acknowledgements
Introduction, Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang
Part I. Theorizing Encounters: Paradigms, Exemplars, Caveats, and Strange Bedfellows
"Pluralism and Power: Considering What Counts in the Discourse on Religions", Jeannine Hill Fletcher
"Masao Abe and Comparative Theology", Leo D. Lefebure
"The 'Us-Them' Dilemma: The Need for Reflexivity while Teaching Interreligious Encounters", J. Derrick Lemons
"Pluralistic Pedagogy for Pluralism", Hsiao-Lan Hu
"Maintaining Neutrality while Teaching Religious Studies", Robert McKim
"Interreligious Literacy and Scriptural Reasoning: Some Hermeneutical, Anthropological, Pedagogical and Experiential Reflections", Marianne Moyaert
"Theological Pluralism, Interreligious Dialogue, And Encountering 'Reality'", Louis Komjathy
Part II. Designing Encounters: Course Design, Strategies, and Challenges
"Challenges in Teaching Islamic Studies in Western Universities: The Problem of Streamlining Islam for Undergraduates", Imranali Panjwani, King's College London
"A Primer on Teaching Interreligious Encounter and Undergraduate Course Design", Hans Gustafson, University of St. Thomas
"Teaching Comparative Political Theology: Text Selection and Sample Texts for a Course on Christianity and Chinese Religions", Joshua R. Brown
"Using Hevruta to Do and Teach Comparative Theology", Devorah Schoenfeld and Jeanine Diller
Part III. Textual Encounters: Methods, Texts, and Traditions
"Teaching Exodus Inter-Religiously", Daniel Maoz and Allen Jorgenson
"Interreligious Teachings and the Qur'an: The Art of Interpretation", Hussam S. Timani
"Reading Ignatius in Kathmandu: Towards a new Pedagogy of Interreligious Dialogue", Thomas Cattoi
"Introducing the Bhagavad Gita as Theological Source Text: Text and Commentary, Teacher and Student", Jonathan Edelmann
Part IV. Practical Encounters: Case Studies, Site Visits, and Immersion Programs
"Sacred Spaces and Interreligious Learning", Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook
"Teaching Interreligious Encounters through Case Studies", Emily Sigalow and Wendy Cadge
"The Case Study Method as a Means of Teaching About Pluralism", Brendan W. Randall and Whittney Barth
"A Contextual Model for Interreligious Learning", Marianne Farina and Robert W. McChesney, S.J.
Part V. Formational Encounters: Preparation for Vocation and Citizenship
"Teaching Interfaith Leadership", Eboo Patel and Cassie Meyer
"Teaching Interspiritual Dialogue to Health Care Professionals: Reflections on a Course for Pharmacy Students", Kelly R. Arora
"The Mystic Traveler in a Global Spiritual Age", Patricia Zimmerman Beckman

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Marc A. Pugliese is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religion at Saint Leo University. Alexander Y. Hwang is an Adjunct Faculty member at Xavier University.

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The only book that addresses the pedagogies of religious pluralism from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Designed for use by new teachers and seasoned scholars alike.