Taking Religion to School

by Webb, Stephen H.

• ISBN13: 9781587430022
• ISBN10: 1587430029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Brazos Pr

Summary

In the modern university, religion is often taken to school--primarily in the sense of being critiqued, disciplined, and domesticated. In this provocative book, Stephen Webb steps into the middle of current controversies about the place of religion in secular high schools and colleges. Speaking explicitly as a Christian theologian, but also as one who accepts the reality of religious pluralism, Webb argues that the teaching of religion is itself a religious activity, that teachers of religion should not disguise their own faiths in the classroom, and that high schools and universities should allow more--not less--space for religious voices.

Author Biography

Stephen H. Webb is associate professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(4)
Introduction: Teaching Religion Religiously	11	(12)
Confessions of a Theologian: How I Learned Why I Teach	23	(36)
Religion Lost and Found in Public Education	59	(36)
The Theology of Teaching and the Teaching of Theology	95	(24)
Classroom Confessions: Redeeming a Theological Trope for Pedagogy	119	(26)
Religion Amid the Ruins of the Postmodern University	145	(16)
The Mystery of the Disappearing Chaplain: A Case Study of Wabash College	161	(28)
Teaching the Freedom to Believe: A Dialogue with William C. Placher	189	(16)
Theology and Religious Studies: How Every Religion Teacher is a Theologian Now	205	(38)
Notes	243