The Chicago Forum on pedagogy and the study of religion
Contributors: Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Publisher: Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Religion; Congresses; Study and teaching (Higher); Religions
Notes: Cover title.

" ... in 2001 the Divinity School approached the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion with a proposal to create the Chicago Forum on Pedagogy and the Study of Religion, a three-year program of plenary talks, panel discussions, and graduate student workshops on issues surrounding the teaching of the academic subject of religion to undergraduates in a liberal arts environment."--P. 2.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Year 1.; title: Place of religious studies in the liberal arts curriculum ;; title: Religion in the liberal arts: reflections on teaching  -- Jonathan Z. Smith ;; title: What's so special about teaching religion  -- Carolin Tolton ; -- Year 2.; title: Theory and practice of comparative work ;; title: Comparative religion for undergraduates: what next? ; title: John Stratton Hawley ;; title: Comparison and learning as privileged ascetic practices  -- David A. Clairmont ; -- Year 3.; title: Religion and religious studies ;; title: Make-believe: on being religious and teaching religion  -- Paul J. Griffiths ;; title: Satanist in the class: the pedagogical challenge of religious pluralism -- David L. Simmons.