The politics of religious literacy : education and emotion in a secular age / Justine Esta Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Justine Esta, author.

Series:

Political and public theologies ; Volume 2.

Political and Public Theologies Series ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

Theology.

Religious pluralism.

Religion and politics.

Public theology.

Political theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

The Politics of Religious Literacy challenges popular understandings of religious literacy as an inclusive framework for navigating religious diversity in the public sphere. Offering a new model, this book provides insights into the often-overlooked feelings and practices informing our questionably secular age.

Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. Spanning classrooms to boardrooms, The Politics of Religious Literacy challenges commonly held understandings of religious literacy as an inclusive framework for engaging with religion in modern, multifaith democracies. As the first book to rethink religious literacy from the perspective of affect theory and secularism studies, this new approach calls for a constructive reconsideration focused on the often-overlooked feelings and practices that inform our questionably secular age. This study offers fresh insights into the changing dynamics of religion and secularism in the public sphere.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Defining the "Religious" in Religious Literacy

1 From Secularization to the Secular Body

2 Religious Literacy in Context

3 Looking Ahead

1. The Rise of Religious Literacy

1 Values

2 Content Knowledge

3 Skills

4 Critical Responses

5 Conclusion

2. Public Sphere, Private Choice: Religious Literacy and Public Reason

1 Secularity 3 and Religious Voluntarism

2 Taking Religion Seriously

3 Inclusion in the Public Sphere

4 The Standard of Democratic Discourse

3. Religious Literacy and Its Limits: Liberalism, Affect, and Pedagogy

1 "In the Service of Democracy": Secularity, Civics, and Liberal Education

2 "From Head to Heart": Affect, Autonomy, and the Materialist Shift

3 "The Integrity of the Teacher": Pedagogy, Neutrality, and Secular Subjectivity

4 Conclusion

4. Tolerance and Its Discontents: Managing Offense in Religious Literacy Discourse

1 "Allergic to Controversy": Tolerance, Civility, and Religious Offense in Public Schools

2 "A Crisis of Civility": Critical Reconsiderations of Tolerance and Civil Discourse

3 "Vigorous-Yet-Respectful Critique": Religious Literacy's Reframing of Tolerance Discourse

4 The Limits of the Law: Does Religious Literacy Step in Where the Law Ends?

5 "Respect Your Neighbor": Agonistic Respect, Deep Equality, and the Self-Regulation Trap

6 Conclusion

5. The "Post-compliance" Moment: Religious Literacy in the Workplace

1 Ernst &amp

Young (EY): Coexist House

2 The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

3 The "Post-compliance" Moment

6. "Labels Can Be a Barrier": Religious Literacy and the Question of Category

1 "Religion Is Not a Native Category": Critical Religion and World Religions.

2 Nonreligion as the New Frontier of Interreligious Dialogue and the Seeming Solution of Worldviews

3 Conclusion

Conclusion: Reforming Religious Literacy

1 In Search of the Secular Student Body

2 Classroom Critiques

3 Teaching the Secular

4 Affective Pedagogies

5 Liberal Habits

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ellis, Justine The Politics of Religious Literacy

ISBN:

9789004523906

OCLC:

1350688557

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004523906 DOI