{"title":"Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World: Beauty and the Art of Christian Formation. By David F. White","authors":"Susan Willhauck","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2234168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2234168","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74470224","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":"Leading Change: Administrative Imaginings for a Decolonial Education","authors":"Mai-Anh Le Tran","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2204056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2204056","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article follows the movements of educational imagination articulated by the late scholar of religious education Maria Harris to offer musings on academic leadership that attempts a decolonial turn for enduring change in theological education. With stylistic and thought experimentations, the essay identifies challenges besieging administrative leadership amid a global pandemic, shifting institutional and cultural landscapes, and enduring legacies of colonial, racial, and gendered regimes. Harris’s educational esthetic and theories of learning and change leadership frame insights for a decolonizing and diasporic consciousness for today’s religious educator who administers and leads with educational imagination.Keywords: Change leadershipdecolonial theological educationMaria Harriseducational imaginationseminaryreligious educationacademic dean Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 These imagined entries—symbolizing an internal and internalized dialogue that constantly replays in the mind of a decanal administrator—are based on actual events, conversations, and email exchanges. This section and the stylistic representation of section headings in this essay take after the form experimented with by Clelia O. Rodríguez (Citation2018) in her book Decolonizing Academia. Experimental exercises of this kind have been taken up by scholars who seek “decolonizing ways of expression” (2018, 2), who beg the question in their genre-breaking defiance, can we write outside the lines of academic intelligibility? Explaining her approach, Rodríguez suggests that her “text is like peeling an onion” (2018, 2). The invitation to the reader is not simply to remove the “layers” in the attempt to comprehend, but rather to “feel” the “tension” of a “fluidity” that defies rigid logics of thinking and writing (2018, 2).2 Sense-filled meaning-making is purposefully invoked in this expression, to remind us that “making sense” is an activity of the whole body, not a mind-body split. Thus, high stakes executive functioning is fundamentally a full bodily exercise, as much a leadership is always an active of embodiment.3 It has been noted that within the North American context, this style of alternating capitalization is a convention used in online spaces or on social media to signal mockery, especially among younger generations, who are creative producers of culture. I use it here not in the same tradition or meaning, but more simply in the manner of language poets and writers such as Rodríguez, whose whimsy also evoke and provoke, perhaps not unlike the language tricks of young people.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMai-Anh Le TranMai-Anh Le Tran is Associate Professor of Religious Education and Practical Theology, and was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, USA. E-mail: maianh.tran@garrett.edu","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950138","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":"At the Intersection of Religious Education and Administration","authors":"Katherine Turpin","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2208506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2208506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950140","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":"The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life","authors":"Sofia Carozza","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2198182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2198182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"21 1","pages":"288 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80363496","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":"Introducing the Seminary to Early Ministry Study","authors":"Dave Eagle, Josh Gaghan, Erin F. Johnston","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2199240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2199240","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Seminary to Early Ministry (SEM) Study is a mixed-method, prospective study designed to provide high-quality empirical data on student formation in theological education. The study will use a series of surveys and in-depth interviews to track three cohorts of divinity school students from matriculation into the early years of their careers. As a result, the study hopes to compile the most comprehensive longitudinal dataset on theological education to date, enabling researchers to better understand who attends seminaries, how seminaries form students, and how the training of future religious leaders can be improved.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"60 1","pages":"133 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86793102","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":"Preparing for the 2023 REA Annual Meeting","authors":"J. Mercer","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2198410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2198410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"16 1","pages":"85 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82617829","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":"Whose Children are They? Talking about Responsibility for Children’s Religious Education","authors":"Karen-Marie Yust","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2198819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2198819","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The REA Annual Meeting 2023 theme is organized around the question, \"Whose children are they?\" as a way to explore diverse and intersecting ways that we take and/or assign responsibilities for children’s religious education. In this essay, the Program Chair reflects on personal and scholarly experiences and questions that have framed and continue to shape her responses to the question. She suggests that the guild can take multiple approaches (descriptive, normative, imaginative, hybrid) to develop potential answers and invites participants to consider how contemporary research in child development and educational theory might helpfully support constructive discourse.","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"30 1","pages":"87 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72503315","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":"To Serve and Unite Children within a World of Diversity is to Recognize the Presence of God","authors":"J. Kirylo, Meir Muller","doi":"10.1080/00344087.2023.2198412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2023.2198412","url":null,"abstract":"In her thoughtful book Educating African American Students: And How Are the Children?, Gloria Swindler Boutte (2016, 2023) writes about the Maasai warriors of eastern Africa and the traditional greetings they exchanged among themselves with a question: Kasserian Ingera, meaning “And how are the children?” The traditional response to the question would be, “All the children are well” (Boutte 2022, 2). To this day, the Maasai people of Kenya still greet one another with this traditional greeting. On the significance of this tradition, Boutte reflects:","PeriodicalId":45654,"journal":{"name":"RELIGIOUS EDUCATION","volume":"77 1","pages":"109 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85898893","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}