Teaching Love: Embodying Prophetic Imagination Through Clowning
Christian religious educators are charged with teaching the practice of loving as Jesus did-transforming broken relationships and enacting radical, life-giving ways of being with and for one another. Redefining some of the sensibilities of "clown ministry" of earlier decades, the author pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2016]
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Religious education
Year: 2016, Volume: 111, Issue: 4, Pages: 398-414 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NBE Anthropology RF Christian education; catechetics |
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| Summary: | Christian religious educators are charged with teaching the practice of loving as Jesus did-transforming broken relationships and enacting radical, life-giving ways of being with and for one another. Redefining some of the sensibilities of "clown ministry" of earlier decades, the author presents clowning as a critical pedagogy that "tutors" (Pruyser 1983) learners to embody prophetic imagination, thereby approximating God's new creation. The article explores experiences of students clowning led by the author. In mimicking "fools for Christ," they surprise themselves and those they meet by loving. Their experiences are analyzed through interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on D.W. Winnicott, Walter Brueggemann, Maria Harris, Paulo Freire, and others. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2016.1183160 |