Download PDF: Calvin RV, Youth Ministry By: David BaileyEugene: Pickwick Publications, 2019. 260 pages. $31.00 In his book Youth Ministry and Theological Shorthand: Living Amongst the Fragments of a Coherent Theology, David Bailey poses some insightful questions about theological education
Download PDF: Beaudoin, Faith in Music Abstract The author reviews a free, open, online course on popular music that he taught from a practical theological perspective. By considering several dimensions of the structure and content of the course, and with
Download PDF: Penagos, Teaching Religious Traditions Abstract Associative place-based pedagogy uniquely provides strategies inclusive of a wide range of traditions beyond those of traditional Western classrooms and provides a foundation for educators to build upon in ways that are practical
Download PDF: Pham and Barush, Swords to Shoes Abstract On June 2015, six years before the 500th anniversary of Ignatius’ pilgrimage, the instructors, Prof. Hung Pham, S.J. and Prof. Kathryn Barush, with a group of twelve graduate students, set off
Download PDF: Alcantara, Fail Better Abstract In recent years, educational theorists have focused greater attention on the ways that improvisational performance theory can enhance pedagogical practice. As a result, values endemic to improvisational performance such as play, collaboration, and experimentation are
Download PDF: Voelz, Reconsidering the Image of Preacher as Teacher Abstract Contemporary homiletic discourse posits a number of images that represent beliefs about preaching identity. Among those images, the relationship between preaching and teaching is one of varied use through
“Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context” is a unique theory-practice undergraduate course at Emory University cross-listed between the Departments of Dance and Religion. The course, now having been taught four times, includes a lecture component on Indian aesthetics
Download PDF: Ammermann, Observing the Church When I accepted a new position at Boston University in 2003, I was told that there was a place in the curriculum they would like me to fill. Since I was their new sociologist, they
Download PDF: Bender, Hallucinations * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Are field methods good for every religious studies scholar? Robert Orsi argues that we all need to learn how to do fieldwork in
Download PDF: Orsi, Doing Religious Studies * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. This method does not satisfy us. It is a priori. It does not derive its concepts from experience—or at least
Download PDF: RV Neville, Finding God By Frank Rogers, Jr. Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2011. 212 pages. $24.00. The fourth title in the Youth Ministry Alternatives series from Pilgrim Press, this new book from Frank Rogers, Jr., professor of Spiritual Formation and
Download PDF:Gottschalk and Schmalz, Better Left Unsaid Introduction Teaching about religion in South Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka has tended to depend on images of discreet “religions” Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Christianity, some of which appear
Download PDF: Mahan, Prophets and Mystics Abstract Some confusions are more distressing than others. Those which impinge on my teaching rank among the more serious. Among these, one stands out from the rest. I have repeatedly noted but never made sense