Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-17-2024
Abstract
This paper argues that a comparative study of saints is not only a useful classroom tool for historians and religionists, but an exceptionally powerful locus of pedagogical insight and cultural understanding. By reframing contemporary consumptive patterns, media representations, and power discourses as religious vectors of saintliness, the professor has an opportunity to explore and assess cultural values, rituals, beliefs, worldviews, communities, traditions, and meaning making in the contemporary college student’s world. By acknowledging the dangers and possibilities of the category of saint while reframing the ascetical impact on developing subjectivities, we propose six pedagogical examples of how this might best be deployed.
Published In
French, T. E., & Forero Bucheli, M. (2024). Comparative methods for teaching contemporary and ancient saints. Religions, 15(2), 238. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15020238
Publication Title
Religions
DOI
10.3390/rel15020238