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Teaching Civic Engagement (Paperback)
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Teaching Civic Engagement (Paperback)
Series: AAR Teaching Religious Studies
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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.
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