Analogous Activities: Tools for Thinking Comparatively in Religious Studies Courses

Autor/in	McGuire, Beverley
Titel	Analogous Activities: Tools for Thinking Comparatively in Religious Studies Courses
Quelle	In: Teaching Theology & Religion, 22 (2019) 2, S.114-126 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-4868
DOI	10.1111/teth.12478
Schlagwörter	Experiential Learning; Teaching Methods; Religion; Religious Education; Metacognition; Nontraditional Education; Spiritual Development; Reflection; Asian Culture; Cultural Influences; Beliefs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Belief; Glaube
Abstract	This article discusses an experiential teaching method that uses secular activities that are simple, accessible, and analogous to religious practice in order to facilitate comparative religious study. These "analogous activities" -- for example, social rituals, stillness, yoga, a social media fast, singing, nonviolent communication, and mindfulness meditation -- provide a third point of reference that allows students to pivot between their understanding of religion and those of practitioners and scholars of religion. Experiential learning can be quite successful if deliberately sequenced to allow students to encounter a series of interpretive frameworks and structured with prompts and parameters that encourage reflection and critical analysis of their experience. In my course engaging in analogous activities not only impacted students' understanding of Asian religions, but also led them to question two previous assumptions: first, that religious beliefs were more important than religious practices, which is particularly problematic in regards to Asian religious traditions that place more emphasis on orthopraxy than orthodoxy, and second, that religion was something separate from one's everyday or lived reality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01