Religious studies scholars as public intellectuals / edited by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Christopher L. Fici and Gerald S. Vigna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MisirHiralall, Sabrina D., editor.

Fici, Christopher L., editor.

Vigna, Gerald S., editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Theology.

Religions.

Scholars.

Intellectuals.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Part I. Our role as public intellecturals. Presidential address. The future of religious and theological studies: what is our responsibility as public intellectuals? / Sabrina D. Misirhiralall ; Claiming our voice: religious studies and public scholarship / Michael D. Waggoner ; A scholar's lament: public acts of grief in a nation of religious minorities / Nathan C. Walker

Part II. Public intellectual theology for the common good in the post-truth era. Tragedy and resistance: religious and theological studies for the common good / Joel C. Daniels ; Chess boards and boxing gloves: public theology, aesthetics, and post-truth politics / L. Callid Keefe-Perry ; Theological inquiry and leadership in a "post-truth" era: insights from blessed Oscar Romero / Marc Delmonico

Part III. Pedagogy and praxis of the public intellectual. Decolonizing the classroom: experimental strategies for decolonial pedagogy and praxis / Gabriel C. Crooks ; The responsibility and limits of military chaplains as public theologians / Adam Tietje ; Religion and leadership: taking some cues from Focolare's "inundations" / Marian Maskulak ; The faithful frame: interfaith conversation and the role of the public intellectual / Rev. Dr. Jane Huber and Rabbi Seth Wax

Part IV. Public intellectualism across the borderlines of religion and history. Welcoming Syrian refugees in Turkey: the role of religious discourse in the case of Diyanet / Ay�senur S�onmez Kara ; The philosophy of Islamic Sufism in public and private piety / Walead Mosaad ; Public intellectuals at the dawn of the Anthropocene Age: can we reMember? / Sara Jolena Wolcott ; Theological anthropology: Christianity's metaphysic of oppression / Roberto E. Alejandro

Conclusion: Scholars of religion and the duty to speak and act / Christopher L. Fici and Gerald S. Vigna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815352549

0815352549

OCLC:

1031422797