This webinar asks two primary questions: how can we nurture greater respect, more nuanced understanding, more care-full critical thought, and deeper community engagement in teaching on Native American and Indigenous religious traditions? Secondly, how can theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies offer critical interventions to responsible pedagogy, making any course in religious studies more responsive to questions of social justice?
The webinar will be structured as a conversation, with a moderator and four Indigenous teacher-scholars from various career stages and disciplines. We are also holding part of the webinar as a workshop, so that audience members can bring a syllabus with them, share challenges, and brainstorm revisions to syllabi. This webinar is connected to a textbook we are working on (under contract with Routledge with submission date this summer) on Native American and Indigenous religions.