Justine Ellis, "The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age" (Brill, 2022)
New Books in Religion
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Exploring Affect Theory and Religious Literacy
This chapter delves into affect theory and its relationship to religious literacy, highlighting the interplay between secularism, emotion, and embodiment in understanding faith. It discusses the challenges in teaching religious literacy, including a controversial incident termed 'Birka Gate' that sparked debates on experiential learning and religious simulation in classrooms. The conversation extends to the complexities of religious literacy boundaries, the biases in proposals, and the impact of affect theory on pedagogy.
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