ABSTRACT
Drawing on Buddhist roots in Contemplative Pedagogy, as well as Feminist philosophy and pedagogy, this chapter explores how developing a Feminist Contemplative Pedagogy can operate in a secular university setting to disrupt the faith/reason dichotomy particularly, the idea that faith is subjective and that the rational is the sole arbiter of knowledge. This emerging pedagogy valorizes the subjective, which is often contrasted with, or even pitted against, the rational and seen as having nothing of epistemic value to contribute, particularly in the West. The author argues that while the rational still dominates higher education, work in Feminist and Contemplative Pedagogy both challenges and disrupts the faith/reason dichotomy. The faith/reason binary does not make sense in a Contemplative Pedagogical framework, which does not fit neatly on either one or the other side of the faith/reason divide.
