Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints

Bibliographic Data

ID3390214
AuthorsTodd E French, Todd French (Rollins College, corresponding author), Mohammed Forero Bucheli (Rollins College, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume15
Issue2
Pages238
Publication date2024-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15020238
OpenAlexW4391943046
LanguageEN
References cited26

This paper argues that a comparative study of saints is not only a useful classroom tool for historians and religionists, but an exceptionally powerful locus of pedagogical insight and cultural understanding. By reframing contemporary consumptive patterns, media representations, and power discourses as religious vectors of saintliness, the professor has an opportunity to explore and assess cultural values, rituals, beliefs, worldviews, communities, traditions, and meaning making in the contemporary college student's world. By acknowledging the dangers and possibilities of the category of saint while reframing the ascetical impact on developing subjectivities, we propose six pedagogical examples of how this might best be deployed

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cognitive reframing · Epistemology · Pedagogy · SAINT · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Psychology · Study and Philosophy of Religion

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