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The Politics of Religious Literacy
Education and Emotion in a Secular Age
Series: - Political and Public Theologies, Volume: 2
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Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. Spanning classrooms to boardrooms, The Politics of Religious Literacy challenges commonly held understandings of religious literacy as an inclusive framework for engaging with religion in modern, multifaith democracies. As the first book to rethink religious literacy from the perspective of affect theory and secularism studies, this new approach calls for a constructive reconsideration focused on the often-overlooked feelings and practices that inform our questionably secular age. This study offers fresh insights into the changing dynamics of religion and secularism in the public sphere.
Justine Esta Ellis, DPhil (2020), University of Oxford, is an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral Leading Edge Fellow. She has published articles on religion and policy in journals, including The Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities and Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds.
"The Politics of Religious Literacy succeeds as a source of âfresh thinkingâ about education, religion, and embodiment, and it should interest anyone invested in what Ellis calls âapplied religious studiesâ (4): the fraught ways in which academic debates get translated into policy, pedagogy, and behavior. It shows how hard it is to escape old patterns of religious and secular thinking, but also why it might still be worth trying." Full review available on:https://readingreligion.org/9789004512931/the-politics-of-religious-literacy/ - Joshua T. Parks
Introduction: Defining the âReligiousâ in Religious Literacy
â From Secularization to the Secular Body
â Religious Literacy in Context
â Looking Ahead
1 The Rise of Religious Literacy
â1 Values
â2 Content Knowledge
â3 Skills
â4 Critical Responses
â5 Conclusion
2 Public Sphere, Private Choice: Religious Literacy and Public Reason
â1 Secularity 3 and Religious Voluntarism
â2 Taking Religion Seriously
â3 Inclusion in the Public Sphere
â4 The Standard of Democratic Discourse
â5 Conclusion
3 Religious Literacy and Its Limits: Liberalism, Affect, and Pedagogy
â1 âIn the Service of Democracyâ: Secularity, Civics, and Liberal Education
â2 âFrom Head to Heartâ: Affect, Autonomy, and the Materialist Shift
â3 âThe Integrity of the Teacherâ: Pedagogy, Neutrality, and Secular Subjectivity
â4 Conclusion
4 Tolerance and Its Discontents: Managing Offense in Religious Literacy Discourse
â1 âAllergic to Controversyâ: Tolerance, Civility, and Religious Offence in Public Schools
â2 âA Crisis of Civilityâ: Critical Reconsiderations of Tolerance and Civil Discourse
â3 âVigorous-Yet-Respectful Critiqueâ: Religious Literacyâs Reframing of Tolerance Discourse
â4 The Limits of the Law: Does Religious Literacy Step in Where the Law Ends?
â5 âRespect Your Neighborâ: Agonistic Respect, Deep Equality, and the Self-Regulation Trap
â6 Conclusion
5 The âPost-complianceâ Moment: Religious Literacy in the Workplace
â1 Ernst & Young (EY ) â Coexist House
â2 The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
â3 The âPost-complianceâ Moment
â4 Conclusion
6 âLabels Can Be a Barrierâ: Religious Literacy and the Question of Category
â1 âReligion is Not a Native Categoryâ: Critical Religion and World Religions
â2 Nonreligion as the New Frontier of Interreligious Dialogue and the Seeming Solution of Worldviews
â3 Conclusion
Conclusion: Reforming Religious Literacy
â In Search of the Secular Student Body
â Classroom Critiques
â Teaching the Secular
â Affective Pedagogies
â Liberal Habits
â Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
â From Secularization to the Secular Body
â Religious Literacy in Context
â Looking Ahead
1 The Rise of Religious Literacy
â1 Values
â2 Content Knowledge
â3 Skills
â4 Critical Responses
â5 Conclusion
2 Public Sphere, Private Choice: Religious Literacy and Public Reason
â1 Secularity 3 and Religious Voluntarism
â2 Taking Religion Seriously
â3 Inclusion in the Public Sphere
â4 The Standard of Democratic Discourse
â5 Conclusion
3 Religious Literacy and Its Limits: Liberalism, Affect, and Pedagogy
â1 âIn the Service of Democracyâ: Secularity, Civics, and Liberal Education
â2 âFrom Head to Heartâ: Affect, Autonomy, and the Materialist Shift
â3 âThe Integrity of the Teacherâ: Pedagogy, Neutrality, and Secular Subjectivity
â4 Conclusion
4 Tolerance and Its Discontents: Managing Offense in Religious Literacy Discourse
â1 âAllergic to Controversyâ: Tolerance, Civility, and Religious Offence in Public Schools
â2 âA Crisis of Civilityâ: Critical Reconsiderations of Tolerance and Civil Discourse
â3 âVigorous-Yet-Respectful Critiqueâ: Religious Literacyâs Reframing of Tolerance Discourse
â4 The Limits of the Law: Does Religious Literacy Step in Where the Law Ends?
â5 âRespect Your Neighborâ: Agonistic Respect, Deep Equality, and the Self-Regulation Trap
â6 Conclusion
5 The âPost-complianceâ Moment: Religious Literacy in the Workplace
â1 Ernst & Young (
â2 The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
â3 The âPost-complianceâ Moment
â4 Conclusion
6 âLabels Can Be a Barrierâ: Religious Literacy and the Question of Category
â1 âReligion is Not a Native Categoryâ: Critical Religion and World Religions
â2 Nonreligion as the New Frontier of Interreligious Dialogue and the Seeming Solution of Worldviews
â3 Conclusion
Conclusion: Reforming Religious Literacy
â In Search of the Secular Student Body
â Classroom Critiques
â Teaching the Secular
â Affective Pedagogies
â Liberal Habits
â Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
This book is intended for readers interested in todayâs changing religious and secular formations. It aims to reach audiences in fields such as religious studies, secular studies, affect theory, educational studies, public policy, political theology, and public theology.