Conversations: Interdisciplinary Theological Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (AR1000P)

Content

This unit provides the opportunity for theological engagement from a number of perspectives on a selected hot-button cultural, social, or political issue, for example: borders, science and religion, good and evil. It introduces the student to a range of methods (linguistic, hermeneutical, historical, feminist, systematic, philosophical, artistic, liturgical, intercultural) and shows how these contribute to debates underway in the contested public sphere.

Learning outcomes

Pedagogy

Intensive- One-week face to face with assessments due towards the end of the semester Face to Face: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorial

Indicative Bibliography

• Andraos, Michel Elias. “Engaging Diversity in Teaching Religion and Theology: An Intercultural, De-Colonial Epistemic Perspective.” Teaching Theology & Religion 15, no. 1 (2012): 3–15.
• Butkus, Russell A. and Steven A. Kolmes. “Theology in Ecological Perspective: An Interdisciplinary, Inquiry-Based Experiment.” Teaching Theology & Religion 11, no. 1 (2008): 42–53.
• Canale, Fernando. “Interdisciplinary Method in Christian Theology? In Search of a Working Proposal.” Neue Zeitschrift für systematicsche Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 43, no. 3 (2001): 366–89.
• Geffré, Claude and Werner G. Jeanrond, eds. Why Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994.
• Ghiloni, Aaron J. “On Writing Interdisciplinary Theology.” Practical Theology 6, no. 1 (2013): 9–33.
• Jagessar, Michael N. “Dis-Place Theologizing: Fragments of Intercultural Adventurous God-Talk.” Black Theology 13, no. 3 (2015): 258–72.
• Jesse, Jennifer G. “Reflections of the Benefits and Risks of Interdisciplinary Study in Theology, Philosophy, and Literature.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 32, no. 1 (2011): 62–73.
• Ortiz, Gaye. “Women, Theology, and Film: Approaching the Challenge of Interdisciplinary Teaching,” In Teaching Religion and Film, 165–73. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• O’Callaghan, Phyllis. A Clashing of Symbols: Method and Meaning in Liberal Studies. Georgetown University Press, 1988.
• Setyawan, Yusak Budi. “Education for Developing Interfaith and Intercultural Awareness: Toward Global Peace and Harmony.” Theologies and Cultures 9, no. 2 (2012): 45–58.
• van den Toren, Benno. “Intercultural Theology as a Three-Way Conversation.” Exchange 44, no. 2 (2015): 123–43.
• Walton, Heather. Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary Spaces. Routledge, 2011.
• Webster, John B. Theological Theology: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 27 October 1997. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Assessment