Embodied Pedagogies in Religion provides a forum for creative, renowned teachers (professors and instructors) of religion to discuss ways in which they think about the embodied dimension of teaching and learning specific to their areas of expertise and how they have shaped their curriculum to engage and reflect their thinking. The goal of this volume is multiple: It will showcase deeply thoughtful and creative approaches to teaching and learning that will inspire other teachers and vivify the teaching and academic study of religion. It will raise complex epistemological and ontological issues that underpin the craft of teaching but are rarely discussed and even more rarely discussed with sophistication and about the craft itself. It will raise these issues in relation to multiple traditions that hold different and at times conflicting epistemologies and ontologies, thus opening a truly cross-cultural comparative dialogue. This cutting-edge volume is as an open-ended conversation that embraces the exploration of different pedagogies with different kinds of content and quests for different forms of learning and understanding. Ultimately this volume will contribute to a developing conversation in religious studies that move beyond rigid orthodoxies to a place of open creative, productive, and enacted exploration, cultivation, and theorization.

About the Author

Sravana Borkataky-Varma is an expert in South Asian religions, with a focus on Hindu traditions. Currently, she is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Houston as well as a Research Affiliate at Harvard University.

Sarabinh Levy-Brightman is an educator, curriculum consultant, and teacher coach. Her academic background is in the study of religion with a focus on the relationship between mind and body in Christian theology and western philosophy, particularly phenomenology.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032685298
Author Sravana Borkataky-Varma
Format Paperback
Page Count 292
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd