Violence and Religion in the Christian Tradition
Violence and Religion in the Christian Tradition
This essay advocates the use of problem-based learning in teaching Christianity and violence because students will enter the course perceiving the nexus between these two categories as puzzling. Problem-based learning can examine representative texts, rituals, and incidents and provide interpretative models for analyzing them. Framing the Christian tradition in terms of the myth of redemptive violence and economies of sacrifice equips students to employ problem-based learning to such topics in Christian history as the crucifixion, martyrdom, heroic asceticism, the Crusades, witch hunts, and colonialism, each of which this essay develops as a topic for classroom exploration.
Keywords: problem-based learning, redemptive violence, economies of sacrifice, crucifixion, martyrdom, asceticism, Crusades, witch hunts, colonialism
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