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Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy: December 2014
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Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy. Monday, December 15, 2014. Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom. What follows is a reflection from one of the participants. Who have influenced the academic study of religion. Since we are on the quarter system, I have only ten weeks to play around with. One of the key questions we address in the course is: what is religion? We start the first week with the intro and first chapter to Brent Nongbri’s Before Religion. A decent, accessible overvie...
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Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy: September 2014
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Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. How and Why Should You Bring Culture on The Edge in the Classroom. In his 1998 book On Television. Wrote: “There is nothing more difficult to convey than reality in all its ordinariness…Sociologists run into this problem all the time: How to make the ordinary extraordinary and evoke ordinariness in such a way that people will see just how extra-ordinary it is? This is where Culture on the Edge. Relevant not only for Religiou...