Acting Religious: Theatre As Pedagogy in Religious Studies

By Victoria Rue and Monica Rue McQueen

Book Overview

People are torn by conflict, fractured by cultural, religious, racial and economic divides. Religion has often been a prime motivator for this violence. Classrooms must be places in which we learn to hold differences and commonalities. Classrooms are opportunities to rehearse, to practice, how we want to live with one another. Religions, says Rue, are more than ideas: they are lived, enacted by human beings in particular ways. And courses in religion need more than a cognitive understanding of central concepts. Rue asserts that students need to viscerally encounter belief, religious practice, religious imagination, and religious experience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0829816291
• ISBN13: 9780829816297
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Pilgrim Pr
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"