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Intracultural Interreligious Learning: Openings Toward Contextualization
Author(s) -
Berling Judith,
Lee Kanghack
Publication year - 2013
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/teth.12135
Subject(s) - spiritualities , conversation , openness to experience , indigenous , contextualization , class (philosophy) , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , spirituality , epistemology , communication , linguistics , philosophy , medicine , ecology , alternative medicine , pathology , interpretation (philosophy) , biology
The authors developed and co‐taught a course on K orean indigenous spiritualities designed primarily for K orean C hristians to reflect on whether such spiritualities might hold resources for their religious lives. Engaging students directly with the spiritual practices, texts, and representatives of the traditions, the course encouraged students to voice their understandings of these traditions on their own terms, and the extent to which they might hold resources for K orean C hristianity. Starting each class session with pair discussions (in K orean, if desired), and then sharing the pair responses with the larger class for fuller discussion gradually developed intracultural interreligious openness to the K orean indigenous heritage. Two non‐ K orean students brought “outsider” questions and responses to the conversation. Students reported that the learning experience was successful and valuable.