Taking religion to school : Christian theology and secular education / Stephen H. Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Stephen H., 1961-2016.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion in the public schools--United States.

Religion in the public schools.

United States.

Theology.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, [2000]

Summary:

In the modern university, religion is often taken to school--primarily in the sense of being critiqued, disciplined, and domesticated. In this provocative book, Stephen Webb steps into the middle of current controversies about the place of religion in secular high schools and colleges. Speaking explicitly as a Christian theologian, but also as one who accepts the reality of religious pluralism, Webb argues that the teaching of religion is itself a religious activity, that teachers of religion should not disguise their own faiths in the classroom, and that high schools and universities should allow more--not less--space for religious voices.

Taking Religion to School, rather than rehearse tired debates, bursts with creative insight and strategic reframings of the crucial questions about religion and pedagogy. Webb's penetrating analysis and vivid autobiographical reflections will benefit professors of religious studies, high school teachers of religion, students, seminary-and university-based theologians, and all others concerned with the many points of contention over religious education in our day.

Contents:

Introduction: Teaching Religion Religiously 11

1. Confessions of a Theologian: How I Learned Why I Teach 23

2. Religion Lost and Found in Public Education 59

3. The Theology of Teaching and the Teaching of Theology 95

4. Classroom Confessions: Redeeming a Theological Trope for Pedagogy 119

5. Religion Amid the Ruins of the Postmodern University 145

6. The Mystery of the Disappearing Chaplain: A Case Study of Wabash College 161

7. Teaching the Freedom to Believe: A Dialogue with William C. Placher 189

8. Theology and Religious Studies: How Every Religion Teacher is a Theologian Now 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (243-253).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1587430029

OCLC:

44110398