This dissertation articulates a religious pedagogy that is guided by a five step paradigmatic approach consisting of contemplation, engagement, from-giving, emergence, and release. Borrowed from Maria Harris, this method operates under the premise that both teaching and learning is an activity of the imagination. But the imagination, understood as a function of human consciousness, can become coerced and sequestered by dominant and oppressive forces. The imagination is given epistemic privilege in this work, since it is considered to be a precondition for genuine freedom due to its ability to move us beyond the empirical world of the here and now and towards new possibilities for existence. Decolonizing the imagination reclaims the Christian symbols and metaphors that have become domesticated and imperialized in order to reinvigorate them to exert their emancipatory force and the power to speak truth about and for the world.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
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American Dream
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Decolonization
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Imagination
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Practical theology
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Religious pedagogy
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Theological education
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