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Teaching Philosophy of Religion Inclusively to Diverse Students
Proposal abstract :
In recent years, students have become increasingly diverse and inclusive. At the same time academic institutions have been striving to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet, despite these facts, most curricula in philosophy of religion have remained Christocentric and/or Eurocentric. A group of eighteen scholars and philosophers of religion, that has formed over the past five years at the A.A.R., would like to create, implement, and assess ...
In recent years, students have become increasingly diverse and inclusive. At the same time academic institutions have been striving to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet, despite these facts, most curricula in philosophy of religion have remained Christocentric and/or Eurocentric. A group of eighteen scholars and philosophers of religion, that has formed over the past five years at the A.A.R., would like to create, implement, and assess ...
Proposal abstract :
In recent years, students have become increasingly diverse and inclusive. At the same time academic institutions have been striving to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet, despite these facts, most curricula in philosophy of religion have remained Christocentric and/or Eurocentric. A group of eighteen scholars and philosophers of religion, that has formed over the past five years at the A.A.R., would like to create, implement, and assess teaching strategies to make college and university classrooms in philosophy of religion truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive. The goal of the proposed project is to prepare faculty to teach courses in philosophy of religion from multiple perspectives and to provide a safe space for students to explore a diversity of positions and to encounter a variety of religious truth claims on their own terms. We believe that such a method is transferable to the pedagogy of teaching global and comparative religious studies.
In recent years, students have become increasingly diverse and inclusive. At the same time academic institutions have been striving to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet, despite these facts, most curricula in philosophy of religion have remained Christocentric and/or Eurocentric. A group of eighteen scholars and philosophers of religion, that has formed over the past five years at the A.A.R., would like to create, implement, and assess teaching strategies to make college and university classrooms in philosophy of religion truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive. The goal of the proposed project is to prepare faculty to teach courses in philosophy of religion from multiple perspectives and to provide a safe space for students to explore a diversity of positions and to encounter a variety of religious truth claims on their own terms. We believe that such a method is transferable to the pedagogy of teaching global and comparative religious studies.