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Author | : Sarah Tauber |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498218768 |
How do religious educators meaningfully engage adult learners? How do they invite adults to begin a learning journey and inspire them to stay on it? In an era of "spiritual but not religious," how can religious educators, and clergy in particular, respond to the yearnings of adults for connection, wholeness, and purpose? Open Minds, Devoted Hearts offers the examples of three outstanding congregational rabbis whose teaching answers that call to action. Through innovatively incorporating biographical portraits and educational scholarship the book provides a comprehensive exploration of how the themes of narrative, transformation, and spirituality bring adult religious educators and learners into a powerful interactive educational process. The portraits and accompanying analysis reveal how constructing personal meaning and building sacred community through study situates adult learning as a dynamic centerpiece of an energized congregational life.
Author | : James Michael Nagle |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2020-03-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725255790 |
For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution’s immediate influence. The new religious patterns associated with this experience represent a somewhat cohesive movement influencing not just Catholicism, but the whole of North American religion. Careful examination of the lives of disaffiliating young adults reveals that their religious lives are complicated. For example, the assumption that leaving conventional religious communities necessarily results in a non-religious identity is simplistic and even, perhaps, misleading. Many maintain a religious worldview and practice. This book explores one “place” where the religiously-affiliated and religiously-disaffiliating regularly meet—Catholic secondary schools—and something interesting is happening. Through a series of ethnographic portraits of Catholic religious educators and their disaffiliating former students, the book explores the experience of disaffiliation and makes its complexity more comprehensible in order to advance the discourse of fields interested in this significant movement in religious history and practice.
Author | : Courtney T. Goto |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2016-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498233007 |
Believers and teachers of faith regularly know the in-breaking of God's Spirit in their midst, when revelatory experiencing unexpectedly shifts habits of thinking, feeling, and doing toward more life-giving ways of being and becoming. When the moment is right, Spirit breathes new life into dry bones. Though religious educators have much practical wisdom about facilitating learning that is creative and transformative, sharper concepts, cases, and theory can help them do it more critically and assist learners to practice openness to wonder, surprise, and authenticity. The Grace of Playing explains how we can create the conditions for revelatory experiencing by understanding it in light of playing. The notion of playing "as if" can be powerfully reclaimed from ecclesial ambivalence, casual speech, and commercial interests that often lead playing to be associated with childishness, frivolity, or entertainment. This book theorizes adults playing for the sake of faith, drawing on D. W. Winnicott's psychoanalytic theory, a revision of Jurgen Moltmann's theology of play, biblical texts, medieval devotional practices, as well as art and aesthetics that help local faith communities engage in theological reflection. Communal forms of playing in/at God's new creation provide insights into pedagogies in which learners are creating and are created anew.
Author | : Marella Ada V. Mancenido-Bolaños |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9819941989 |
This book focuses on the real-world application of the Philosophy for/with Children (P4wC) pedagogy to cultivate reasonableness in individuals through communities of philosophical inquiry. It presents a collection not only of theories but, more importantly, of experiences, discoveries, and innovations on P4wC by scholars, trainers, advocates, and practitioners around the world. Each chapter provides readers with insights and lessons that have resulted from the continuous application, exploration, and enrichment of the concepts, principles, and practices that were developed by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp into what P4wC is today - a dialogic pedagogical approach that may just be what is needed at a time when reasonableness and dialogue are essential to maintaining global stability and progress. In this light, this book also looks into how the P4wC approach can be practiced with adults such as when it is employed in various settings or contexts such as in business consulting, textbook writing, peace education, and extremism prevention, among others. Furthermore, this book also features chapters that discuss how the P4wC pedagogy can be beneficial once integrated into processes such as classroom teaching, teacher education, bioethics, and employee education. This book provides valuable insights about how reasonableness that is cultivated through building communities of philosophical inquiry in education can be a powerful tool for nation-building and social transformation.
Author | : Barbara Sheklin Davis |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2019-03-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532673310 |
Two Jews, Three Opinions examines a unique educational movement that began in 1980 when eight school leaders met to create RAVSAK: the Jewish Community Day School Network, an association of schools distinguished by being inclusive of all Jews in their communities. This singularly-purposed segment of the Jewish educational mosaic has not been studied before. As American Jews struggle with changing demographics and identities, it is instructive to see how community day schools and their network anticipated and accommodated many of this century’s most significant Jewish educational challenges. Two Jews, Three Opinions illuminates the community day school network’s embrace of Klal Yisrael, the unity of the Jewish people. It describes what led to RAVSAK’s success and then to its elimination as an entity, the exceptionality and importance of which was vastly undervalued and underserved by the American Jewish establishment. Arguing for the vital importance of pluralistic Jewish education in the twenty-first century, it issues a call to Jewish communal leaders to champion community day schools as guarantors of a knowledgeable and committed Jewish future.
Author | : Victor Tissot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Switzerland |
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Author | : Esther Singleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Switzerland |
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Author | : Neil Wilson |
Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 778 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1414370733 |
In our world of work and home, we spend hour upon hour making plans, casting visions, managing our day-planner and the events they represent. Yet, how much time do we spend pursuing wisdom with all of our heart? Often the key to breaking through the endless array of events and plans and to-do lists, is the wisdom to know what’s important to living life well. The Daily God Book Words of Wisdom helps you acquire the wisdom God wants you to have each and every day.
Author | : Irena M. Golsky |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1491739908 |
Open Mind, Open Heart weaves together a tapestry of ancient eastern teachings and scientific knowledge with Irena M. Golskys unique perspective gained from her spiritually transforming experiences and wide healing practice. Its meant to be read multiple times to uncover the layers of meaning distilled into one slim volume. You will want to keep it handy at your bedside or open it as part of your morning ritual to reveal the nugget of wisdom that is just right for you each day. Golsky continually enhances her healing abilities with the help of her guides, shamans, and spiritual healers in order to teach and help humanity. Her aim is to continue in words her mission of helping others to heal their minds, bodies, emotions and spiritual selves. This is the first of a trilogy being worked on by Ms Golsky. This trilogy is designed to guide you through the process of a positive spiritual transformation. Whether you are a man or woman, rich or poor, young or old, Open Mind, Open Heart can help direct you to a happier, more peaceful life. You may be an atheist, consider yourself a spiritual seeker, or be devoted to a religious path, but it makes no difference: This work will awaken your spirit, feed your intellect, and please your soul.
Author | : Robert Underwood Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
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