AAR Teaching Religious Studies – serie
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18 produkter
Teaching Civic Engagement
Av Forrest Clingerman, Reid B. Locklin
Inbunden, 2016
3212 kr
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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 …
Teaching Civic Engagement
Av Forrest Clingerman, Reid B. Locklin
Häftad, 2017
620 kr
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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 …
Teaching Durkheim
Häftad, 2005
764 kr
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Emile Durkheim's work on religion occupies a central place in religious studies classrooms today. At the undergraduate level, Durkheim is widely taught in large Introduction to Religion courses and in upper division seminars in 'theory and method.' His work is also taught in graduate Religious …
Teaching African American Religions
Av Carolyn M. Jones, Theodore Louis Trost
Inbunden, 2005
2260 kr
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The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion among the most difficult topics in religious studies to teach to undergraduates. The sheer scope of the material to be covered is daunting to instructors, many of whom are not experts in African American religious …
Teaching African American Religions
Av Carolyn M. Jones, Theodore Louis Trost
Häftad, 2005
552 kr
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The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion among the most difficult topics in religious studies to teach to undergraduates. The sheer scope of the material to be covered is daunting to instructors, many of whom are not experts in African American religious …
Teaching Religion and Healing
Av Linda L. Barnes, Inés M. Talamantez
Inbunden, 2006
1481 kr
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This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different …
Teaching Religion and Healing
Av Linda L. Barnes, Inés Talamantez
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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The study of medicine and healing traditions is well developed in the discipline of anthropology. Most religious studies scholars, however, continue to assume that "medicine" and "biomedicine" are one and the same and that when religion and medicine are mentioned together, the reference is …
Teaching Ritual
Häftad, 2007
667 kr
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There is a great deal of interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into religious studies classes, but many teachers are uncertain how to go about doing this. Religious studies faculty know how to teach texts, but they are often unprepared to teach something for which the meaning lies in …
Teaching New Religious Movements
Inbunden, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1243 kr
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Since its inception around 1970, the study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) has gradually evolved into an established multidisciplinary area of study. In this volume, a group of senior NRM scholars who have been instrumental in the development of the field offer essays that present the basics of …
Teaching Confucianism
Inbunden, 2008
660 kr
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Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East …
Teaching the Daode Jing
Av DEANGELIS, Gary Delany DeAngelis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1720 kr
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'How should I teach the Daode Jing?' This question haunts a growing number of non-specialists who find themselves called upon for either curricular or intellectual reasons to teach the DDJ. Teaching the Daode Jing is designed to provide access to contemporary scholarship and pedagogical strategies …
Teaching Death and Dying
Inbunden, 2008
1720 kr
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The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s. Courses on some aspect of death and dying can now be found at most institutions of higher learning. These courses tend to stress the psycho-social aspects of grief and bereavement, however, ignoring the religious elements inherent to …
Teaching Religion and Violence
Inbunden, 2012
1793 kr
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Many people now see religious violence as one of the defining characteristics of the modern world. Instructors are often asked about it in their courses that deal with religion. Classroom discussion of violence committed in the name of religion can either open the door to a more subtle appreciation …
Teaching Buddhism
New Insights on Understanding and Presenting the Traditions
Inbunden, 2016
2627 kr
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Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship. This creates a problem for instructors, both in a university setting and in monastic schools, as they try to develop a curriculum based on a body of scholarship that continually shifts …
Teaching Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies
Av Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rebecca Todd Peters m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1811 kr
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Twenty-five years ago, historian of religions Jonathan Z. Smith wrote: ''The quest for the powers and skills of informed judgment for the dual capacities of appreciation and criticism might well stand as the explicit goal of entry level of college curriculum.'' Regardless of specific course …
Teaching Jung
Av Kelly Bulkeley, Kelly Bulkeley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1894 kr
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Swiss psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) has made a major, though still contested, impact on the field of religious studies. Alternately revered and reviled, the subject of adoring memoirs and scathing exposes, Jung and his ideas have had at least as much influence on religious studies as have the …
Teaching Mysticism
Inbunden, 2012
1647 kr
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The term ''mysticism'' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse. The essays in this volume offer ways of defining what mysticism is, as well as methods for grappling with its complexity in a classroom.This volume addresses the diverse …
Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes)
Av Geoffrey Redmond, Tze-Ki Hon
Inbunden, 2014
2077 kr
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Chinese traditional culture cannot be understood without some familiarity with the I Ching, yet it is one of the most difficult of the worlds ancient classics. Assembled from fragments with many obscure allusions, it was the subject of ingenious, but often conflicting, interpretations over nearly …
