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{"title":"Crossed Wires: The Disconnect Between Christian Leaders’ Perceptions of Parents and the Lived Experiences of Contemporary Families","authors":"Cheryl Minor, Hannah Sutton-Adams, Heather Ingersoll","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2269342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2269342","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study explored the spiritual needs of Christian families by surveying and holding focus groups with parents and congregational leaders. We discovered a disconnect between what congregational leaders think is happening with families and the lived experience of families. Congregational leaders often perceive the lack of church engagement from families as disinterest or devaluing of spirituality and faith over and against other pursuits. However, our data revealed that parents deeply value spirituality and issues of faith. This research highlights the need for deep listening on the part of congregational leaders coupled with empathy for the pressures parents are currently feeling.Keywords: Christian familiesparentsparentingnurturing spiritual livesCOVID-19spiritualityspiritual well-beingchurch attendance Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This study originally sought to interview caregivers of children and youth including grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. However, everyone but two individuals in our sample identified as a “parent.” As such, we use the term parent throughout the manuscript rather than the broader term of caregiver.2 The mission of Godly Play is to support research, curriculum, and training for the purpose of nurturing the spiritual well-being of children.3 Participants were from California, Canada, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington State, West Virginia, and Texas.Additional informationNotes on contributorsCheryl MinorCheryl Minor is the Director of the Center for the Theology of Childhood for the Godly Play Foundation, the research and publishing arm of the Foundation. She has a Ph.D. from Northcentral University in Scottsdale, Arizona Her work is focused on nurturing the spiritual well-being of children. Email: cheryl.minor@godlyplayfoundation.orgHannah Sutton-AdamsHannah Sutton-Adams is a Ph.D. candidate in Theology and Education at Boston College and a board-certified chaplain. She is the research assistant at the Center for the Theology of Childhood with the Godly Play Foundation.Heather IngersollHeather Ingersoll is the Executive Director of the Godly Play Foundation, a non-profit supporting the spiritual nurture of children through research, training, and curricula. Her professional experience is focused on using academic discourse and empirical research to inform practical support for the spirituality of children in churches, schools, and organizations.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"1978 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135637062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spiritual Intelligence: A Vision for Formation in Religious Education","authors":"Thi An Hoa Nguyen,","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2264554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2264554","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article introduces the category of spiritual intelligence (SI) as a vital way for religious education to cultivate knowledge and practical wisdom. SI fosters human interconnectedness and promotes a sense of belonging for learners. It helps strengthen learners’ identities and creates a just learning environment. The article proposes a version of SI grounded in the ideas of Koinonia (communion) in Christianity and Sangha (community) in Buddhism, which are useful for learners in both religious traditions and across religions.Keywords: Formationspiritual intelligencespiritual crisiswisdomcommunityinterconnectedness Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsThi An Hoa Nguyen,Thi An Hoa Nguyen is a third-year Ph.D. student in Theology and Education at Boston College. She is a member of the Congregation of the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Đà Lạt (LHC), the first women’s religious congregation instituted in Vietnam in 1671. Sr. An Hoa holds an M.A. in Theology from Yale University. Email: thianhoa.nguyen@bc.edu","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"195 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Pilgrimage to the Motherland: Understanding Pilgrimage Experience as Embodied Religious Education for Korean American Youth and Young Adults","authors":"Eunil David Cho, Garam Han","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2268971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2268971","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores how pilgrimage shapes the ways in which Korean American youth and young adults develop their sense of intersectional identities by visiting their motherland. The coauthors begin by highlighting the limitation of Korean American churches’ emphasis on text-based education, suggesting how pilgrimage as a spiritual practice could be more implemented for more embodied and experiential learning. By analyzing the Trip to the Motherland program run by the Presbyterian Churches in Korea and North America, the article demonstrates how transnational pilgrimage enables young pilgrims to gain a renewed sense of intersectional identities, which integrates their racial, ethnic, and religious lives.Keywords: Korean Americanpilgrimageembodied learningyoung adultsidentity development Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The term “intersectional identity” comes from the concept of “intersectionality,” first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (Citation1989). Intersectionality describes how race and racism need to be understood at their intersection with other forms of indentification, such as gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, immigration status, and more. This concept is helpful in exploring how Korean American young people often struggle to make sense of their racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious identities as racially minoritized individuals in America.2 Christine Hong and Anne Carter Walker (Citation2020) use a similar methodology in their co-written article. Inspired by bell hooks, Hong and Carter Walker use their personal narratives as a way to engage in critical dialogue and reflection on religious education and what it means to be religious educators as scholars of color. Patrick Reyes (Citation2018) also employs a similar approach in his article, “Practical Theology as Knowledge of Origin and Migration.”3 Cho participated in the pilgrimage in 2015 and 2018 and Han participated in the pilgrimage program in 2022.4 In the history of Korean Christianity, along with American Presbyterians, American Methodists also laid the Protestant Christian foundation in Korea, such as Henry G. Appenzeller, George Heber Jones, and Mary Scranton.5 Another similar program is called Brightright Israel, which provides opportunities for young American Jews to visit Israel on an all-expense-paid ten-day pilgrimage-tour. Sociologist and Jewish studies scholar Shaul Kelner (Citation2010) writes about the program and explores how it helps American Jewish young adults to think more extensively about their identities as they visit their motherland in Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism.6 While the transition into “Individuative-Reflective” faith ideally happens in the early to mid-twenties, Fowler (Citation1995) strongly indicates that not every young adult succeeds in doing it. Many people could also transition into this stage after their young adulthood.7 Yoido Full Gosp","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136236036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Construction of Place: Creating a Religious Built Environment to Optimally Support a Child’s Entrance into Flow","authors":"Elizabeth Vice","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2268463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2268463","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThere is significant research on the built environment’s support for children’s optimal learning in educational settings. While faith itself is transmitted through conversation with God, the process of conversation, as well as a child’s interaction and growth within their community, is affected by the physically built environment of the classroom. By filtering data through a lens of God’s gift of place, we can see what is often taken for granted or measured by adult standards. When place is viewed as the third teacher, best practices can help children enter a flow state of learning which supports their spiritual development.Keywords: built environmentchildren’s facilitiescreating communityChristian educationclassroomschildren’s optimal learning Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsElizabeth ViceElizabeth Vice has years of training and education both in human development, Montessori pedagogy, and theology. At Parkside, she combines all of these skills to assist the children as they live into the reality that they are loved by God. Email: eavice@mindspring.com","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136381908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Faith Formation and Children’s Agency in the Context of Vietnamese American Catholic Families","authors":"Thi An Hoa Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2268465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2268465","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn light of the history of immigration during and after the Vietnam War, Vietnamese American families are struggling to live between two worlds: their old culture and nation and their new life in the United States. Parents face a dilemma in raising their children, either to maintain the Vietnamese tradition or to adapt to the new American culture. I propose a Family-Centered Faith Formation model to accompany immigrant children on their faith journey by naming false family narratives and rewriting family narratives using a practical theology approach.Keywords: Immigrant familiesidentitychildren’s agencyFamily-Centered Faith Formation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsThi An Hoa NguyenThi An Hoa Nguyen is a third-year Ph.D. student in Theology and Education at Boston College. She is a member of the Congregation of The Lovers of the Holy Cross of Đà Lạt, the first women’s religious congregation instituted in Vietnam in 1671. Sr. An Hoa holds an M.A. in Theology from Yale University. Email: thianhoa.nguyen@bc.edu","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136382219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Educating Black Girls Enduring Microaggressions in an Oreo World","authors":"Gina A. S. Robinson","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2268446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2268446","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore suburban Black Christian girls’ experiences of microaggressions in the public high school context. Through an ethnographic study, personal narratives were collected from six suburban Black Christian girls who all attended the same African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church where I served as the youth minister. These narratives offer insight into ways microaggression encounters in suburban schools can impact the personal identity, racial identity, and spiritual formation of Black adolescent girls. The Black sanctuary is the context where the girls in the study felt most accepted, represented, and safe. This implies re-imagining religious education practices with Black girls is important if pastors want to cultivate formative spaces that help Black youth thrive in an Oreo World.Keywords: MicroaggressionsBlack girlseducationChristianethnography Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Dictionary.com, s.v. Oreo. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/oreo.2 According to the Chicago Public Schools “Understanding Special Education” webpage, a 504 plan is “a plan developed to ensure that a child who has a disability under the law (Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) and is attending an elementary or secondary educational institution receives accommodations and supports that will ensure their academic success and equal access to the learning environment. The disability must substantially limit a major life activity, which includes a child’s ability to learn in a general education classroom.” https://www.cps.edu/services-and-supports/special-education/understanding-special-education/#:∼:text=The%20504%20Plan%20is%20a,equal%20access%20to%20the%20learning. Accessed May 13, 2022.Additional informationNotes on contributorsGina A. S. RobinsonGina A. S. Robinson, PhD is at Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Crawfordsville, IN, USA. E-mail: robinsog@wabash.edu","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"9 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135267530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religious Education and Adolescent Kindness: A Qualitative Study among Students in Christian Secondary Schools","authors":"Robert Skoretz","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2268439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2268439","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores religious and spiritual influences that motivate adolescents to show kindness toward their peers who are outside their friend group. Findings from semi-structured interviews with 21 students from eight Christian high schools show the importance of presence, modeling, resources, and education for supporting adolescent prosocial cross-group interaction. These findings are put in conversation with relevant literature, and the article shares practical insights for communities of faith who wish to prioritize, encourage, and support acts of kindness among their teens.Keywords: Adolescent kindnessprosocial behaviorreligious education Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 All participant names and some narrative details have been changed to protect participant confidentiality.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert SkoretzRobert Skoretz is a secondary school Religion teacher at Loma Linda Academy, a private Seventh-day Adventist school. He earned a PhD in Practical Theology from Claremont School of Theology with an emphasis in Religious Education and continues to pursue interests in prosocial behavior, interreligious literacy and dialogue, and religious education. E-mail: http://rskoretz@lla.org.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"17 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lament, Hospitality, and Living Together with ‘Our’ Children: Rethinking Religious Education in Local Churches with Children Who Have Refugee/IDP Backgrounds","authors":"Eliana Ah-Rum Ku","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2268457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2268457","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores how religious education can access and embrace children with refugee/internally displaced people (IDP) backgrounds to address the issues associated with feelings of loss safely and to contribute to a socially just framework. This article makes practical recommendations for religious educators to respond better to the suffering of children who experience violence, oppression, and control, and it invites the formation of communities of mutual respect that honor children’s identities and subjective experiences. Through the discourses and practice of lament and hospitality and with the ethics of inter-embracement, this article rethinks the meaning of a sense of social belonging, safety, and restoration.Keywords: Lamenthospitalityinter-embracementrefugee/IDPreligious education Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsEliana Ah-Rum KuEliana Ah-Rum Ku, Research interests are lament, hospitality, postcolonial feminist hermeneutics, intersectional oppression, and narrative ethics in preaching. Among recent researches are “Towards an Asian decolonial Christian Hospitality: Shù (恕), Pachinko, and the Migrant Other,” “Lament-Driven Preaching for a 戀 (Yeon) Community,” “The Hermeneutics of Hospitality for Epistemic Justice”. Email: elianasoriyuni@gmail.com.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135778750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Let us Govern around the Kitchen Table: Embodying the Guild’s Anti-Colonial Commitments","authors":"Anne Carter Walker","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2259701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2259701","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article, developed from an oral presentation of the Presidential Address offered at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Religious Education Association, invites the guild to repurpose its governance and discourse practices around Indigenous feminist kitchen table methodology. It names the process of this methodology, and invites the guild to participate in the actualization of its own anti-colonial future through the practices of reciprocity and mutual recognition that shape this methodology.Keywords: Religious educationanti-colonialismgovernanceIndigenous feminismkitchen table methodology Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1  I am a citizen of Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah, OK).2  I encourage you to read Kayla Meredith August’s paper, “Preaching from the Kitchen: The Proclamation of Black Women from Seemingly Ordinary Spaces and How It Transforms the Faith of Youth” from the 2023 REA Annual Meeting Proceedings (August Citation2023).3 Dori Grinenko Baker offers an excellent template for story-sharing that includes theological reflection: Listen, Immerse, View, Explore/Enact (Baker Citation2023). Likewise, Yohana Junker and Aizaiah Yong offer “SpiritLetters,” a story-sharing process via letter-writing designed to “bless the space between us” in the digital classroom (Junker and Yong Citation2022).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne Carter WalkerAnne Carter Walker is Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Vocational Formation at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK. Email: annecwalker@gmail.com","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135244464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflections on Mentoring and Faculty of Color: A White Academic Dean’s Perspective","authors":"Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2227812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2227812","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article reflects on the role of the academic dean in theological education in relation to faculty of color. Drawing on research related to faculty of color in higher education and theological education, the article explores issues and responses to the challenges faced by faculty of color in predominately White institutions, and maps potential responses and strategies.KEYWORD: Mentoringmentoring communityfaculty of coloracademic deantheological educationWhite Additional informationNotes on contributorsSheryl A. Kujawa-HolbrookSheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook is Pofessor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at Claremont School of Theology. She formerly served as Academic Dean at Claremont School of Theology and at Episcopal Divinity School. She has published widely on the intersection of race and religious education, spiritual formation, interreligious education, and pastoral care. Email: skujawa-holbrook@cst.edu.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135538434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}