The Ethics of Doing Comparative Hagiology
This paper argues that a virtue-informed methodology is foundational to best practice in scholarly, collaborative, and comparative hagiological work. Following a discussion of how this resonates with Todd French's work in this volume, I then draw from my experience as an educator to outline how...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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| In: |
Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Justice
B Ethics B Pedagogy B hagiology B Religious Studies B disciplinary innovation B Comparative Method B collaborative scholarship B Hagiography B Comparative Religions |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that a virtue-informed methodology is foundational to best practice in scholarly, collaborative, and comparative hagiological work. Following a discussion of how this resonates with Todd French's work in this volume, I then draw from my experience as an educator to outline how a virtue-based approach might play out in pedagogy. Finally, I offer two metaphors for an "other-person centered" collaborative-comparativist mindset. Both of these are taken from my lived, and conversational "apprenticeship" in comparative hagiology on the Argentine-Brazilian border. Reflection on these metaphors, as well as their generative experiences, demonstrates the need for holistic self-reflection in the comparative study of religions, and of "hagiography" in particular. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel10120660 |