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Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. Spanning classrooms to boardrooms, The Politics of Religious Literacy challenges commonly held understandings of religious literacy as an inclusive framework for engaging with religion in modern, multifaith democracies. As the first book to rethink religious literacy from the perspective of affect theory and secularism studies, this new approach calls for a constructive reconsideration focused on the often-overlooked feelings and practices that inform our questionably secular age. This study offers fresh insights into the changing dynamics of religion and secularism in the public sphere.
Price: $65.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Political and Public Theologies
Publication Date:
10 November 2022
ISBN: 9789004512931
Format: Paperback
"The Politics of Religious Literacy succeeds as a source of “fresh thinking” about education, religion, and embodiment, and it should interest anyone invested in what Ellis calls “applied religious studies” (4): the fraught ways in which academic debates get translated into policy, pedagogy, and behavior. It shows how hard it is to escape old patterns of religious and secular thinking, but also why it might still be worth trying." Full review available on:https://readingreligion.org/9789004512931/the-politics-of-religious-literacy/ - Joshua T. Parks
Justine Esta Ellis, DPhil (2020), University of Oxford, is an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral Leading Edge Fellow. She has published articles on religion and policy in journals, including The Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities and Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds.