A Pedagogy for Precarious Times: Religious Education and Vulnerability

To live is to be vulnerable. The fact of our fragility has been laid bare in some of the crises we face in public life in the United States: an uncontained pandemic, relentless racist violence, and persistent and worsening ecological loss. This essay argues that although education has sometimes prom...

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Auteur principal: Ayres, Jennifer R. 1972- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Dans: Religious education
Année: 2021, Volume: 116, Numéro: 4, Pages: 327-340
Sujets non-standardisés:B Escape
B Grief
B Ecological
B Education
B Vulnerability
B Fragility
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Résumé:To live is to be vulnerable. The fact of our fragility has been laid bare in some of the crises we face in public life in the United States: an uncontained pandemic, relentless racist violence, and persistent and worsening ecological loss. This essay argues that although education has sometimes promised (even obliquely) an economic, political, or even spiritual escape from vulnerability, religious education should instead nurture loving awareness of vulnerability and, in light of that knowledge, the resilience and courage to love the world.
ISSN:1547-3201
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2021.1933345