Graceful Agnosticism
A Pedagogy for Religious Life and Learning Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21379700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Michael Nagle (0000-0002-1723-3738, Department of Theology, Xavier High School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-30 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4087 • E-ISSN: 1547-3201 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00344087.2024.2430808 |
| OpenAlex | W4405796739 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
A long-dominant approach to religious life and learning is driving people away from involvement with their meaningful questions, hopes, and practices. As educators, we may need to rethink what constitutes religious life and learning, and how religion enters people’s lives. To help discern this way forward, this article reviews the “problem” facing religious institutions and suggests the real problem is a theology of affiliation that restricts the ability to learn with religious others, or from the unexpected movements of the Divine. The article proposes a pedagogy of graceful agnosticism that presents particular religious traditions as partial and contingent, and accepts theological uncertainty and diversity as formative for religious identity and practice
Aesthetics · Agnosticism · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Formative assessment · Identity (music) · Pedagogy · Religious education · Religious experience · Religious life · Sociology · Philosophy · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida
Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion
Multiple Religious Belonging after Religion
The Ideology of Religious Studies
Stages of Faith
Manufacturing Religion
Border Lines
The Meaning and End of Religion
Genealogies of Religion
Soul Searching
Critical Terms for Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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