Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 243 mm
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 243 mm
Reihe: An American Academy of Religion Book
ISBN: 978-0-19-517645-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Many teachers share an interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into their religious studies classes, but are uncertain how to do it. Religious studies faculty know how to teach texts, but they often have difficulty teaching something for which the meaning lies in the doing. How
do you teach such "doing"? How much need be done? How does the teacher talk about the religiosity that exists in personalized relationships, not textual descriptions or prescriptions?
These practical issues also give rise to theoretical questions. Giving more attention to ritual effectively suggests a reinterpretation of religion itself-an understanding less focused on what people have thought and written, and more focused on how they engage their universe. Many useful analyses
of ritual derive from anthropological and sociological premises, which may be foreign to religious studies faculty and even seen by some as theologically problematic. This is the first resource to address the issues specific to teaching this subject. A stellar cast of contributors, all scholars of ritual and teachers experienced in using ritual in a wide variety of courses and settings, explain what has worked for them in the classroom, what has not, and what they have learned from the experience of being more real about religion. Their voices range from personal to formal, their topics from
ways to use field trips to the role of architecture. The result is a rich guide for teachers who are new to the subject as well as the experienced willing to think about new angles and fresh approaches.
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Preface
Contributors' Biographies
Introduction, Catherine Bell, editor
Part I. Teaching the Experience through Encounter and Reflection
1. "Living A Double Consciousness", R. Schechner
2. "Still Liminal After All These Years: Teaching Ordeals and Peregrinations", A. Grodzins Gold
3. "Dancing Ritual, Ritual Dancing: Experiential Teaching", S. Gill
4. "The Fieldtrip and Its Role in Teaching Ritual", D. Pinault
5. "Experience, Purpose, Pedagogy and Theory: Ritual Activities in the Classroom", M. Wallace
6. "Ritualizing Zen and the Art of Writing", R. Grimes
Part II. Teaching the Questions through Issues and Theories
7. "Teaching Ritual Propriety and Authority through Japanese Religions", J. Nelson
8. "The Camp-Meeting and the Paradoxes of Evangelical Protestant Ritual", A. Taves
9. "Ritual from Five Angles: A Tool for Teaching", A. Strathern and P. Stewart
10. "Teaching Rites Ritually", M. McGann
11. "Teaching the Cognitive Approach", T. Vial
12. "Religion as Ritual", C. Bell
Part III. Teaching the Medium through Contrast and Engagement
13. "Teaching Healing Rituals/Ritual Healing", S. Sered and L. Barnes
14. "Reflections on Ritual in Noh and Kyôgen", R. Gardner
15. "Ritual Performance and Ritual Practice: Teaching the Multiple Forms and Dimensions of Ritual", L. Ekstrom and R. Hecht
16. "Eventfulness of Space: Teaching about Sacred Architecture IS Teaching about Ritual", L. Jones
17. "Ritual and the Writing Class", C. Lehrich
Bibliography
Index
