Teaching Critical Religious Studies: Ped

Teaching Critical Religious StudiesPedagogy and Critique in the Classroom\nAuthor(s): Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Beverley McGuire, Hussein Rashid\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350228450, 978-1350228450\nSynopsis\nAre you teaching religious studies in the best way possible? Do you inadvertently offer simplistic understandings of religion to undergraduate students, only to then unpick them at advanced levels?\n\n This book presents case studies of teaching methods that integrate student learning, classroom experiences, and disciplinary critiques. It shows how critiques of the scholarship of religious studiesincluding but not limited to the World Religions paradigm, Christian normativity, Orientalism, colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, and classcan be effectively integrated into all courses, especially at an introductory level.\n\n Integrating advanced critiques from religious studies into actual peda.