Catholics & Cultures as an Act of Improvisation
A Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8250683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas M Landy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-119 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global Catholicism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2475-6423 • E-ISSN: 2475-6423 |
| Publisher | College of the Holy Cross (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.32436/2475-6423.1090 |
| OpenAlex | W3149508631 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay responds to seven articles published in the same issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism on the use of Catholics & Cultures, a multimedia website, as a pedagogical resource for college classrooms. The site is deliberately presented in a fashion that undermines notions of center and periphery and presents Catholicism from a lay, lived-religion perspective as the multicultural faith that it is, minimizing reference to religious typologies. Particular attention is given to how to navigate tensions around theorizing, categorizing and sorting information for cross-cultural comparison. Given scholars’ current state of knowledge, writing about and teaching about global Catholicism requires willingness to grapple with material that is inevitably new to us, and that we can only improvisationally categorize and theorize about
Aesthetics · Art · Categorization · Epistemology · Faith · Improvisation · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · State (computer science · Visual arts · Computer Science · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |