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Engaging Diversity in Teaching Religion and Theology: An Intercultural, De‐colonial Epistemic Perspective
Author(s) -
Andraos Michel Elias
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9647.2011.00755.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , diversity (politics) , sociology , colonialism , epistemology , knowledge production , dimension (graph theory) , pedagogy , philosophy , anthropology , political science , art , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , visual arts , knowledge management
This essay explores new ways of engaging diversity in the production of knowledge in the classroom using coloniality as an analytical lens. After briefly engaging some of the recent literature on coloniality, focusing on the epistemic dimension, the author uses the example of teaching a course on religion, culture, and theology, where he employs this analysis, to develop a new pedagogical approach as a step towards an intercultural, de‐colonial theological education.