Spotlight on Teaching
Jessica Tinklenberg (The Claremont Colleges), Editor
Spotlight on Teaching is a major teaching and learning initiative of the AAR and its Committee on Teaching and Learning. Over the last several years, it has become a principal venue for exploring opportunities and challenges in teaching and learning about religions. Spotlight appears in Religious Studies News twice a year as a member benefit. Each issue focuses on a particular theme, concern, or setting.
Issues
Equity-Focused Pedagogies in the Religious Studies Classroom / July 2022
Trauma-Informed Pedagogies in the Religious Studies Classroom / March 2021
Empathy and the Religious Studies Classroom / January 2020
Contemplative Pedagogy and the Religious Studies Classroom / June 2019
Teaching Religion as Anti-Racism Education / Fall 2018
Teaching Tales: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling in the Hindu Studies Classroom and Beyond / Spring 2018
Teaching the Paranormal and the Occult / October 2017
Religious Studies after the 2016 Election / May 2017
Let's Get Physical / October 2016
Incarcerated Religion: Teaching behind Walls / May 2016
Faculty-Led, Short-Term Study Abroad Programs / May 2015
Teaching New and Alternative Religious Movements / January 2015
Teaching Asian American Religions and Religiosities / May 2014
Spotlight on Theological Education
Scott. C. Alexander, Catholic Theological Union, editor
Spotlight on Theological Education is a major initiative of the AAR and its Theological Education Steering Committee. Spotlight has become an important venue for exploring opportunities and challenges in theological education. Each issue focuses on a particular theme, setting, or concern to theological education. Spotlight appears as a special supplement to Religious Studies News in the spring of each year as a member benefit.
Issues
Science and Theological Education: Reports from the Field / May 2019
Trump and A Crisis in American Monotheisms / April 2018
Theological Education between the Times / April 2017
Islamic Studies at North American Theological Seminaries / April 2016
Intersectionality in Theological Education / April 2015
The Transnational Character of Theological Education / March 2014
Environmental Justice and Interreligious Ecotheology / March 2013