Religion in the composition classroom : a pragmatic approach / Joe Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Joe, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious literature--Authorship.

Religious literature.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Students in first-year composition courses across the country discuss and write about touchy subjects like race, class, gender and religion. This book focuses on the latter, offering a pragmatic way of working with religious belief as a subject of study in the secular setting of the university classroom. Based on the work of American pragmatists like Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, this approach considers what religious belief does in the world--the tangible consequences of believing or not believing--and steers away from questions concerning God's existence or benevolence. Relig

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. A "Simple" Question; 2. Happy Harmonizing: Peirce, James and Dewey on Religion; 3. God in the Comp Class: Boundaries and Places to Look; 4. God in the Comp Class: Assignments (and Responding to Assignments); Conclusion; Appendix: Student Essays; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print verison record.

ISBN:

1-4766-2055-5