ABSTRACT

This volume explores the twenty-first century classroom as a uniquely intergenerational space of religious disaffiliation, and questions about how our work in the classroom can be, and is being, re-imagined for the new generation. The culturally hybrid identity of Millennials shapes their engagement with religious "others" on campus and in the classroom, pushing educators of comparative theology to develop new pedagogical strategies that leverage ways of seeing and interacting with their teachers and classmates. Reflecting on religious traditions such as Islam, Judaism, African Traditional Religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and agnosticism/atheism, this volume theorizes the theological outcomes of current pedagogies and the shifting contours of comparative theological discourse.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

part I|53 pages

Comparative Theology in a Millennial Classroom

chapter 1|15 pages

(Un)Silencing Hybridity

A Postcolonial Critique of Comparative Theology

part II|66 pages

Interrogating Identity

chapter 6|13 pages

Soteriological Privilege

chapter 7|15 pages

Teaching Tawhid

Unity through Diversity

chapter 8|13 pages

Feeling Comparative Theology

Millennial Affect and Reparative Learning

chapter 9|13 pages

Constructing Boundaries by Crossing Them

Contemporary Comparative Theology as a Practice of Community Self-Definition

part III|80 pages

Getting (Comparatively) Theological

chapter 10|12 pages

Among the Nones

Questing for God in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

chapter 12|13 pages

Recognizing the Place of African Traditional Religions in the Comparative Theological Discourse

Mediating Classroom Encounters through Storytelling

chapter 13|13 pages

Dharma and Moksha, Works and Faith

Comparatively Engaging the Tension between Ethics and Spirituality

chapter 14|15 pages

Knowing Their Rites

The Formation of “Textual Confidence” among Jewish and Muslim Women in Academic and Community-Based Settings 1

chapter |15 pages

Afterword

Some Reflections in Response to Teaching Comparative Theology in the Millennial Classroom