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Forum: Teaching With, Against, and To Faith
Author(s) -
Jones Medine Carolyn M.,
Penner Todd,
Lehman Marjorie
Publication year - 2015
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.12308
Subject(s) - faith , spirituality , ideology , judaism , sociology , environmental ethics , pedagogy , political science , epistemology , law , theology , philosophy , politics , medicine , pathology , alternative medicine
These three articles deal with the issue of faith in the classroom – whether one should teach “to,” “for,” or “against” faith. While their institutional settings and experiences are different, the authors all contend that more serious reflection needs to be given to the matter of how religious commitment plays out in our diverse pedagogical settings. The initial article by Carolyn Medine surveys the current climate regarding student spirituality in the classroom, the broader governmental concerns, and, the tensions that inform the choices available to a professor. Todd Penner's essay analyzes faith‐as‐ideology in the undergraduate classroom, and Marjorie Lehman's contribution analyzes how the issue manifests differently in Jewish Studies.