Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals

ISBN-13: 9780367589943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Sabrina D. Misirhiralall; Christopher L. Fici; Gerald S. Vigna

Opis

Looking at the individual and collective role of religious studies scholars and theologians in public life, this book will be of great interest to all scholars and academics involved in religious studies and theology across the academy.

Spis treści

1 Introduction  Part I: Our Role as Public Intellectuals  2 The Future of Religious and Theological Studies: What Is Our Responsibility as Public Intellectuals?  3 Claiming Our Voice: Religious Studies and Public Scholarship  4 A Scholar’s Lament: Public Acts of Grief in a Nation of Religious Minorities  Part II: Public Intellectual Theology for the Common Good in the Post-Truth Era  5 Tragedy and Resistance: Religious and Theological Studies for the Common Good  6 Chess Boards and Boxing Gloves: Public Theology, Aesthetics, and Post-Truth Politics  7 Theological Inquiry and Leadership in a "Post-Truth" Era: Insights from Blessed Oscar Romero  Part III: Pedagogy and Praxis of the Public Intellectual  8 Decolonizing the Classroom: Experimental Strategies for Decolonial Pedagogy and Praxis  9 The Responsibility and Limits of Military Chaplains as Public Theologians  10 Religion and Leadership: Taking Some Cues from Focolare’s ‘Inundations’  11 The Faithful Frame: Interfaith Conversation and the Role of the Public Intellectual  Part IV: Public Intellectualism Across The Borderlines of Religion and History  12 Welcoming Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Role of Religious Discourse in the Case of Diyanet  13 The Philosophy of Islamic Sufism in Public and Private Piety  14 Public Intellectuals at the Dawn of the Anthropocene Age: Can we ReMember?  15 Theological Anthropology: Christianity's Metaphysic of Oppression  16 Conclusion: Scholars of Religion and the Duty to Speak and Act

O autorze

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Ed.D. received her doctorate from the Pedagogy and Philosophy Program at Montclair State University. Recently, she published Confronting Orientalism A Self-Study of Educating Through Hindu Dance. She serves as Regional Coordinator on the Executive Board of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.

Christopher L. Fici is a Ph.D candidate at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He serves currently as the President of the Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion, as well as Co-Chair within that region for the Comparative Religion and Ecology section.

Gerald S. Vigna is Associate Professor of Theology at Alvernia University in Reading, PA. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at Temple University and Northwestern University respectively. Currently, he is Vice-President/President-Elect of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.