Teaching Interreligious Encounters

In Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang have gathered together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholar-teachers to explore the pedagogical issues that occur at the intersection of different religious traditions. This volume is a theoretical and practical guide for new teachers as well as seasoned scholars. It breaks the pedagogy of interreligious encounters down into five distinct components. In the first part, essays explore the theory of teaching these encounters; in the second, essays discuss course design. The parts that follow engage practical ideas for teaching textual analysis, practice, and real-world application. Despite their disciplinary, contextual, and methodological diversity, these essays share a common vision for the learning goals and outcomes of teaching interreligious encounters. This is a much-needed resource for any teacher participating in these conversations in our age of globalization and migration, with its attendant hopes and fears.

About the Author :
Marc A. Pugliese is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religion at Saint Leo University. He is the author of The One, the Many and the Trinity: Joseph A. Bracken and the Challenge of Process Metaphysics and Beyond Na�vet� Ethics, Economics, and Values (with Rohnn B. Sanderson). Alexander Y. Hwang is an adjunct faculty member at Xavier University and Saint Leo University. He is the author of Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace: The Life and Thought of Prosper of Aquitaine. He is a co-editor of Strangers in this World: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration and The Meaning of My Neighbor's Faith: Inter-Religious Reflections on Immigration.

Review :
"Most of the contributions emphasize that students can learn something personally valuable and meaningful from studying and especially participating in interactions with people who have religious commitments different than their own. This volume offers a rich set of suggestions about how to design and structure such learning opportunities."--Eugene V. Gallagher, Reflective Teaching "There is a vast array of modes by which the topics are approached, from those that are quite pedagogically theoretical to those that are more descriptive of specific courses, and from those assume a Christian starting part to those that start from other places and traditions or assume no particular confessional base Overall, I think this is a book that many teachers and instructors will benefit from."--Paul Hedges, Reading Religion "This book has everything one needs to explore, deepen, or expand the robust conversations on interreligious encounters as pedagogical opportunities. All teachers will find this work indispensable in their effort to introduce these conversations in their classrooms."--Uriah Y. Kim, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Dillenberger Professor of Biblical Studies, Graduate Theological Union "Calling all teachers and scholars of religion: Here is a vital and dynamic introduction to practicing comparative theology in the classroom and to theorizing it before class and after. Here, difference is not a barrier but an invitation to deep interreligious engagement. The goal is not surface agreement but the adventure and truth of living heart to heart."--Peter Ochs, Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia