How to Be a Heretic: Teaching Heterodoxies and Non-Christian Practices (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)

Organizer Name

Thomas A. Goodmann

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Miami

Presider Name

Christine Neufeld

Presider Affiliation

Eastern Michigan Univ.

Paper Title 1

Sympathy for the Devil: Cultivating Critical Empathy through Heterodoxy

Presenter 1 Name

Diane Shane Fruchtman

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Washington and Lee Univ.

Paper Title 2

Teaching Provencal Lyrics and the Cathars

Presenter 2 Name

Anita Obermeier

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of New Mexico

Paper Title 3

Belief on Trial

Presenter 3 Name

Ada Maria Kuskowski

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Southern Methodist Univ.

Paper Title 4

Unravelling the Oikoumene: The Social Dimension of Heresy

Presenter 4 Name

Jan Volek

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Paper Title 5

Juxtaposing Attar and Dante: Two Paths

Presenter 5 Name

Marisa Sikes

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Austin Peay State Univ.

Start Date

15-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2030

Description

This session explores pedagogies for engaging students with practices constructed as heretical and/or heterodox in relation to orthodox Christian theologies, as well as non-Christian faith practices in the medieval period.

Thomas A. Goodmann