Claiming Our Callings Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal Arts

by Schwehn, Kaethe; Lagerquist, L. DeAne

• ISBN13: 9780199374724
• ISBN10: 0199374724
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2014-07-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Kaethe Schwehn received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at St. Olaf College. Her poetry and prose appear in anthologies and journals such as Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Cresset, and Fiction on a Stick.

L. DeAne Lagerquist holds a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She joined the St. Olaf College faculty in 1988. She has served on the national board of the Lilly Fellows Network of church-related colleges and universities and been a leader in Lutheran higher education.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword - Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
Introduction - Kaethe Schwehn
1. ''Getting a Vocation'': Variations on a Lutheran Theme - L. DeAne Lagerquist
2. Good Work and the Good Life: Vocation as What We Do - James J. Farrell
3. Work in Progress - Diane LeBlanc
4. On Teaching Politics as a Vocation - Douglas Casson
5. Vocation, Psychologically Speaking - Donna K. McMillan
6. Forty-Three and Out: On the Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Rewards of a Vocation - Mark Pernecky
7. Meaningful Lives, Religious Pluralism, and the Case of the Bodhisattva - Barbara E. Reed
8. Professing Vocation by Caring for the Land - Kathleen L. Shea
9. Vocation and Liberal Learning: The Case for the Exploration of Vocation across the Curriculum - Jo Michelle Beld
10. To Practice What We Teach: Action and Reflection - Mary S. Carlsen
11. The Power of Example: Anthropology and Vocation - Thomas Williamson
12. Coming Into Being: Buddhist Meditation and the Practice of Teaching - Carol Holly
13. Professing Religion - John D. Barbour
Afterword - James J. Farrell and L. DeAne Lagerquist
Index