RT Article
T1 Forum: Insiders, Outsiders, and Disclosure in the Undergraduate Classroom
JF Teaching theology and religion
VO 19
IS 3
SP 276
OP 295
A1 Bazzano, Elliott 1938-
A1 Truschke, Audrey
A1 Yeo, Jayme M.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1566381630
AB In this set of essays, three authors provide different perspectives on whether personal religious sensibilities and identities affect the ways we teach religion. Elliott Bazzano discusses how, as a white Muslim convert teaching at a Catholic college, he incorporates selective autobiographical anecdotes into his classes as a way to problematize the meaning of "insider" and "outsider," and pushes his students to recognize the many layers of identity that any given person embodies at a given time. In the second essay, Audrey Truschke explains why she makes no reference to her own religious beliefs or affiliations in class as part of her strategy to demonstrate how students can study any religion regardless of personal convictions. In the third essay, Jayme Yeo explores the benefits of discussing personal religious identity as a means to resist the categories of "inside" and "outside," which she sees as heterogeneous concepts that do not always offer explanatory power upon close examination.
K1 Authority
K1 Identity
K1 insider-outsider
K1 Pedagogy
DO 10.1111/teth.12338