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Teaching As An Expression Of A Love Ethic, Abbylynn Helgevold Apr 2021

Teaching As An Expression Of A Love Ethic, Abbylynn Helgevold

Intersections

No abstract provided.


Keeping Close From A Distance: Pandemic Reflections Of A Library Coordinator, Carla Flengeris Apr 2021

Keeping Close From A Distance: Pandemic Reflections Of A Library Coordinator, Carla Flengeris

Intersections

No abstract provided.


Department Of Catholic Studies Newsletter, Spring 2021, Michelle Loris Apr 2021

Department Of Catholic Studies Newsletter, Spring 2021, Michelle Loris

Catholic Studies Newsletter

Highlights: From the Chair --Meet the faculty: Charles (Charlie Gillespie, Ph.D., Jillian Plummer, Ph.D., Emily Bryan, Ph.D., Chelsea King, Ph.D. --Department scholarship: Publications and conference presentations.


Catholics & Cultures As An Act Of Improvisation: A Response, Thomas M. Landy Mar 2021

Catholics & Cultures As An Act Of Improvisation: A Response, Thomas M. Landy

Journal of Global Catholicism

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 …


Catholics & Cultures: A Panoramic View In Search Of Greater Understanding, Stephanie M. Wong Mar 2021

Catholics & Cultures: A Panoramic View In Search Of Greater Understanding, Stephanie M. Wong

Journal of Global Catholicism

While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics & Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential …


The Value Of Online Resources: Reflections On Teaching An Introduction To Global Christianity, Hillary Kaell Mar 2021

The Value Of Online Resources: Reflections On Teaching An Introduction To Global Christianity, Hillary Kaell

Journal of Global Catholicism

Reflecting on my experience teaching Introduction to Global Christianity, this essay ponders questions at the heart of undergraduate teaching: How can we encourage students to utilize online sources? How can we empower them to seek out answers to their questions? It offers practical examples of how I have used the Catholics & Cultures website in my classroom at a large public university. In particular, I reflect on my experience working with students who are mostly of Catholic heritage, but from many cultural and social contexts.


Teaching Sexuality On The Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn Toward The Longue Durée, Marc Roscoe Loustau Mar 2021

Teaching Sexuality On The Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn Toward The Longue Durée, Marc Roscoe Loustau

Journal of Global Catholicism

I present a close reading of the Catholics & Cultures (C&C) website’s treatment of sexuality-related issues and discuss this material in relation to debates about how to teach sexuality in religious studies and theology classrooms. The C&C website occasionally and intermittently uses a typical “contemporary issues” approach that considers sexuality in relation to legal and legislative decisions and government policies. In contrast, country profiles consistently situate sexuality in relation processes like nation building, urbanization, and lay Catholics’ growing authority. My interpretation highlights the site’s decision to emphasize the longue durée, long-term and deep structural processes driving cultural and religious changes. …


Ritual Among The Scilohtac: Global Catholicism, The Nacirema, And Interfaith Studies, Anita Houck Mar 2021

Ritual Among The Scilohtac: Global Catholicism, The Nacirema, And Interfaith Studies, Anita Houck

Journal of Global Catholicism

More than six decades after its publication, Horace Miner’s 1956 article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” remains a reliable pedagogical tool, remarkably successful in helping students see their own ethnocentric biases. Catholics & Cultures has potential to do similar work. The site lacks some of what makes Miner’s text so effective, in particular its capacity to bring about a sudden shift in perception. The site also shares some of the article’s limitations, particularly in focusing on ritual to the relative exclusion of other aspects of religion. That said, the site can help students gain the religious literacy and develop the …


Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder Mar 2021

Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder

Journal of Global Catholicism

The dynamics of religious resurgence reveal the important ways that religious ritual and performance are meaning making spaces which are not self-contained or cut off from the rest of culture, but rather are a key locus of cultural change. A renewed emphasis on the busy intersections of meaning making – as rituals are connected, disconnected, and reconnected to other domains of social life – would improve the utility of the Catholics & Cultures website for understanding global cultural change. And a renewed emphasis on cultural change would also provide a better means for exploring reflexively by seeking to understand both …


A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht Mar 2021

A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht

Journal of Global Catholicism

Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through the convenience of a screen. The ostensible comfort students have with difference gives way to a paradox, and one that’s made especially apparent in the theology classroom: Students are comfortable with seeing difference and particularity at a distance, but not adept at locating difference and particularity “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help students from the dominant culture—namely, white students who comprise the vast majority of Catholic college students—destabilize their notion of the Catholic tradition as tightly …


Introducing Catholics & Cultures: Ethnography, Encyclopedia, Cyborg, Mathew N. Schmalz Mar 2021

Introducing Catholics & Cultures: Ethnography, Encyclopedia, Cyborg, Mathew N. Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

In introducing the Catholics & Cultures site and the articles in this special issue, this essay initially locates the overall Catholic & Cultures project within the traditions of ethnography and encyclopedia. Drawing extensively on the work of J. Z. Smith, this essay reflects upon the theoretical implications of emphasizing the diversity of Catholicism in and through a web-based platform that facilitates comparative study and pedagogy. This essay then more specifically considers the web-based aspects of Catholics & Cultures by identifying a nascent cyborgian aesthetic in the site and considering how the site might eventually engage post-modern themes and concerns.


I Can't Breathe: But The Holy Spirit Can, As I Advocate For African American Boys And Men, Gwendolyn C. Webb Mar 2021

I Can't Breathe: But The Holy Spirit Can, As I Advocate For African American Boys And Men, Gwendolyn C. Webb

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

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Off The Grid, Sara De Waal Mar 2021

Off The Grid, Sara De Waal

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Looking The World Back To Grace: The Art Of Sara De Waal, James C. Schaap Mar 2021

Looking The World Back To Grace: The Art Of Sara De Waal, James C. Schaap

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Providence In Loss: Remembering Seth Vande Kamp, Donald Roth Mar 2021

Providence In Loss: Remembering Seth Vande Kamp, Donald Roth

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Quarantine Chronicles, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Quarantine Chronicles, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Professional Experience, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Professional Experience, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Studying Abroad During A Pandemic, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Studying Abroad During A Pandemic, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Serving More Through Dual Credit, Joe Bakker Mar 2021

Serving More Through Dual Credit, Joe Bakker

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Horizons Of Hope, Howard Schaap Mar 2021

Horizons Of Hope, Howard Schaap

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Rewiring For Diversity, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Rewiring For Diversity, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Bartels Pens "Suite 2020", Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Bartels Pens "Suite 2020", Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Advancing With Avid, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Advancing With Avid, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Helping God's Children Thrive, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Helping God's Children Thrive, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


The More, The Merrier, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

The More, The Merrier, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Bailey's Book Addresses Apologetics In A New Era, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Bailey's Book Addresses Apologetics In A New Era, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


A New Flag On Campus, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

A New Flag On Campus, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Ladies' Lunch Connects Those Involved In Stem, Lydia Marcus Mar 2021

Ladies' Lunch Connects Those Involved In Stem, Lydia Marcus

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Mechatronics And Instrumentation, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Mechatronics And Instrumentation, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.


Making The Most Of Things, Sarah Moss Mar 2021

Making The Most Of Things, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.