Educating clergy as culture-builders: Can this long tradition be reclaimed?
Golemon L.
2021
Teaching Theology and Religion
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10.1111/teth.12587
This article draws implications from my recent study of the first 150 years of Clergy Education in America for Protestants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and working class whites. I focus on the ability of these schools to prepare leaders for various arenas of public life: families, congregations, schools, voluntary associations, and publishing. The implications for today's seminaries include reframing historic pedagogies in the liberal arts, oratory, and debate; the formation of religious charisma and iconic leadership that are socially transmitted; the orientation of interpretive practices of sacred texts and traditions toward symbolic production; the reinvigoration of theologies that enrich faith communities and the public imagination; and reclaiming the missional nature of theological and rabbinical schools through public media, the arts, and populist pedagogies. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
charisma; iconic identity; liberal ats pedagogies; oratory; rabbinical education; symbolic production; theological education
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