We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Ritual in practice: Creating epistemic friction and overcoming ideological imperviousness in an introductory religious studies class.
- Abstract
The Ritual in Practice Project, adapted from Elizabeth Corrie's Ascetic Withdrawal assignment, asks students in an introductory Religious Studies course at a public university to create a unique ritual practice, engage in it for a month, reflecting on it throughout the project. This activity attempts to circumvent what Jeanine Weakes Schoer calls "ideological imperviousness" by forcing students to encounter what Jose Medina has termed "epistemic friction" as they encounter their own "meta‐blindness" about religious difference. Students realize that the class requires them to do more than acquire object‐level information about religions, it asks them to examine how their own positionality shapes their perceptions of religion and religious difference. The Ritual in Practice Project is a form of "controlled failure" where students encounter the limitations of their own presuppositions about religious freedom in the U.S. and the relationship between belief in practice through an activity that seems low‐stakes and even playful.
- Subjects
IDEOLOGY; RELIGIOUS education; DIVERSITY in education; RITES &; ceremonies; MEDINA, Jose
- Publication
Teaching Theology & Religion, 2021, Vol 24, Issue 4, p205
- ISSN
1368-4868
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/teth.12599