Guest lecturing on geographies of religion: Interviewing my colleagues' students, focusing on tangents

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

7-2016

Abstract

This 'Teaching Tips' article focuses on my recent experience of guest-lecturing in colleagues' classes. Influenced by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, my initial guest-teaching revolved around posing an argument about geographies of religion as 'grounded theologies' as a problem for students to challenge. However, my recent guest lectures have involved interviewing my colleagues' students to discover why they find grounded theologies interesting. I show that this new mode of guest-lecturing - also influenced by Freire - has opened up new conversations at a primal ontological level through a wider breadth of topics discussed, including occupy movements, Game of Thrones, Black Nordic Metal, and modern imperialist ideologies. Following Sam Rocha's folk phenomenology, I suggest that the primal depths that this interview-lecture style of guest lecturing is perhaps worth a try, even though I plan to use the argumentative lecture in the future as well.

Discipline

Higher Education | Religion

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Bulletin for the Study of Religion

Volume

45

Issue

2

First Page

55

Last Page

61

ISSN

2041-1863

Identifier

10.1558/bsor.v45i2.30879

Publisher

Equinox Publishing

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v45i2.30879

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