Title:
A Pedagogy for Precarious Times: Religious Education and Vulnerability
Author:
Jennifer R. Ayres, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Published:
Religious Education, Volume 116, 1 June 2021
Abstract:
To live is to be vulnerable. The fact of our fragility has been laid bare in some of the crises we face in public life in the United States: an uncontained pandemic, relentless racist violence, and persistent and worsening ecological loss. This essay argues that although education has sometimes promised (even obliquely) an economic, political, or even spiritual escape from vulnerability, religious education should instead nurture loving awareness of vulnerability and, in light of that knowledge, the resilience and courage to love the world.