Joyce Ann Mercer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1095601 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joyce Ann Mercer |
| NOMBRES | Joyce Ann |
| APELLIDO | Mercer |
| FIRMA | MERCER J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8537-3679 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Wisdom in Religious Education
Navigating Humanity
Amid the growing plethora of global conferences, panels, and meetings exploring artificial intelligence, few get as close to engaging the direct concerns and interests of religious educators as is
A Practical Hermeneutics of Disasters
Recent deadly severe weather events in the US and globally have me thinking about religious education in relation to disasters. Among the many kinds of education facilitated by religious educators
Burnout as Soul-Erosion
Shortly after the period within the COVID-19 pandemic when classroom doors were shuttered and many faith communities suspended their in-person gatherings for worship and religious education, there
Signature Questions in Teaching
Teachers may be known by their students for many different gifts and traits—one has a reputation for soft-spoken but brilliant lectures, another is famous for their amazing ability to inspire stude
The Writing Life
Almost every year for the past decade, I have spent the first week of January at a writing retreat on the North Carolina coast in the U.S. It is a (mostly) silent retreat, with participants keeping
Mindfulness in Education and Religious Education
The concept of mindfulness has become commonplace in many educational contexts worldwide, encompassing a broad range of contemplative- or meditation-based practices and teachings that are integrate
Beyond the Explicit, Implicit, and Null Curricula
Religious educators frequently cite Elliot Eisner, the late Stanford University professor of arts and education, for his framework of the three different “curricula”—explicit, implicit, and null—op
Dear Earth
For the 2024 annual meeting of the Religious Education Association, program directors Dori Grinenko Baker and Wanda Stahl invite us to come together around the theme “Dear Earth: Innovating Religio
Educating for Gratitude
On a recent gloomy, cloudy day, when school children were restless and moods seemed a bit low, I watched as a teacher invited her class of young children to express things for which they were thank
What Children Know
On Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind for Teaching and Learning in Religious Education
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.” –Shunryu SuzukiThis statement by the Japanese Zen master Shunryu Suzuki shows up frequently in contemporar
Religious Education in Times of Armed Conflict
What does the vocation of religious education ask of us in times of war? The global context for such a question is clear: the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (2023) reported 56 glo
Reflections on the Distinctive Role and Scope of Religious Education
Epistemic Injustice and Religious Education
Temporal Mind Mapping
The REA between Generations
Children and Climate Anxiety
As awareness grows of global warming and ecological degradation, words such as "climate anxiety", and "eco-anxiety" enter our vocabularies, describing the impact of climate change on human mental health and spiritual wellbeing. Distress over climate change disproportionately impacts children, who also are more susceptible to the broader health, economic, and social effects brought about by environmental harm. In this paper, I explore children's v…
Reclaiming Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope for Religious Education
It is February as I write this, and although the promise of vaccine distribution for the COVID-19 pandemic is on the horizon, the road ahead still appears rocky and long. Many of us will continue o
Gender, Sexuality, and Religious Education
More than a decade ago—in 2006 in the pages of this journal—Dr. Boyung Lee prophetically wrote that “unless one addresses the subject of sexuality, the discussion and movement of peace and justice
Reports from Religious Educators at Work amid the Covid-19 Global Pandemic
With a vaccine now being distributed, there is at last some sense of hope among weary people around the world who have borne the effects of illness and the deaths of loved ones from the COVID-19 gl
The Tent of Meeting
The visual arts have always been important to me, both as a resource for education and also for the sheer joy and esthetic pleasure the arts bring. Sometimes an artistic image will take up residenc
BlackLivesMatter in Religious Education
In the past few months it has become so commonplace to name the year 2020 as strange or unusual that we have almost run out of meaningful ways to state the obvious: the world in which we live has b
Virtual Meetings and Religious Education for the Life of the Planet
Religious Education Under Quarantine
Legal and Theological Justice for Abused Adolescent Girls
Theology and law share much in common, including a long history of justifying violence against women. Critics of legal and religious institutions need not look far to find texts offering evidence that both kinds of institutions are hopelessly mired in a patriarchal history that renders them obsolete, and apparently unable to offer anything significant concerning justice for young women victims of abuse. These ancient texts unapologetically procla…
Psychoanalysis, Parents, and God
The Idea of the Child in Freud and Jung
This essay explores the constructions of the child developed in the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. These child-constructs constitute important psychological source-theories for spiritualities of childhood as each embodies a particular understanding of what childhood means, within the author's understandings of human personhood. After addressing an initial period of agreement between the two thinkers in which both understoo…
Liturgical Practices with Children in Congregations
Children in the Worshiping Community
Liturgical Practices with Children in Congregations
Children in the Worshiping Community
Capitalizing on children’s spirituality
Children’s spirituality has become a significant for‐profit enterprise in North American consumer culture. This article explores the marketing of children’s spirituality as an aspect of the larger construction of children as consumers in the context of late globalized capitalism. Playing off of parental anxieties over the need to avail their children of every advantage that can foster the child’s well‐being, mainstream secular markets such as dis…
Children as Mystics, Activists, Sages, and Holy Fools
A Universally Particular Psychology? A Feminist Practical Theological Exploration of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
Vampires, Desire, Girls and God
Pastoral Care with Children of War
Conflicting Identities
This paper draws upon a congregational study of an Episcopal parish in the United States in conflict over sexuality issues. Based on ethnographic research, the paper tells the story of a small Northern Virginia church’s internal struggles, schism, and continuing post-schism conflicts, in the context of its changing external social and religious landscape. A practical theological analysis of these conflicts explores the existence of different theo…
Conundrums in Practical Theology
In this landmark volume, internationally recognized scholars address key intellectual and practical conundrums that not only trouble practical theology but also reflect biases and breakdowns in the construction of theological knowledge in academy and religious communities at large. With critical facility and unheralded honesty that includes reflexivity about their own lives in the academy, the authors tackle complex issues that refuse easy soluti…
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
The Tent of Meeting
The visual arts have always been important to me, both as a resource for education and also for the sheer joy and esthetic pleasure the arts bring. Sometimes an artistic image will take up residenc
BlackLivesMatter in Religious Education
In the past few months it has become so commonplace to name the year 2020 as strange or unusual that we have almost run out of meaningful ways to state the obvious: the world in which we live has b
Virtual Meetings and Religious Education for the Life of the Planet
Religious Education Under Quarantine
Reclaiming Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope for Religious Education
It is February as I write this, and although the promise of vaccine distribution for the COVID-19 pandemic is on the horizon, the road ahead still appears rocky and long. Many of us will continue o
Gender, Sexuality, and Religious Education
More than a decade ago—in 2006 in the pages of this journal—Dr. Boyung Lee prophetically wrote that “unless one addresses the subject of sexuality, the discussion and movement of peace and justice
Reports from Religious Educators at Work amid the Covid-19 Global Pandemic
With a vaccine now being distributed, there is at last some sense of hope among weary people around the world who have borne the effects of illness and the deaths of loved ones from the COVID-19 gl
Reflections on the Distinctive Role and Scope of Religious Education
Epistemic Injustice and Religious Education
Temporal Mind Mapping
Sociology (32 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Philosophy (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (14 obras) · Pedagogy (13 obras) · Religious education (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Religious Education and Schools (10 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras)