Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30519-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 250/11, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians’, Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity and the media through which that knowledge was articulated and communicated. Christians had shared a sense that knowledge might come through visions, images, liturgy; catechisms taught that knowledge of ‘Christianity’ began with texts printed on a page. Second, codicil catechisms sought not simply to dissolve the material distinction between codex and person, but to teach catechumens to see specific words together as texts. The pages of catechisms were visual—they confound precisely that constructed modern bipolarity, word/image, or, conversely, that modern bipolarity obscures what sixteenth-century catechisms sought to do.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wandel, Lee Palmer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Religionspädagogik, Christlicher Katechismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Religionspädagogik, Religionsdidaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsunterricht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction
1. The Codex in the Hand
2. Belief
3. Commandments
4. Prayer
5. Sacraments
6. Images
Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is the author of a number of monographs, including The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge, 2006).