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Volume 1 Number 1 January 2020 The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching An open access digital journal on teaching in religious and theological studies Published by The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in EDITOR Theology and Religion Thomas Pearson, Associate Director of the Wabash Center Hosted by Atla [email protected] Published quarterly online ASSOCIATE EDITORS https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/journal/ Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College (emeritus) Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School (emeritus) Published pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). EDITORIAL BOARD JOURNAL DESCRIPTION Molly Bassett (Mesoamerican Religions) The journal publishes a particular type of academic writing in Georgia State University which teacher-practioners critically reflect on their teaching Jaime Clark-Soles (New Testament) practice – surfacing their assumptions, analyzing their pedagogical Perkins School of Theology, SMU intentions, reflecting on the effectiveness of their learning designs, Carmen Nanko-Fernandez (Latinex Theologies) and diagnosing challenges to student learning. Catholic Theological Union Martin Nguyen (Islamic Religious Traditions) Fairfield University Joseph Lennis Tucker Edmonds (African and African American Religion) IUPUI Joanne Robinson (Medieval & Reformation Christianity) University of North Carolina (Charlotte) Andrea White (Theology and Culture) Union Theological Seminary, NYC Benjamin Zeller (Religion in America) Lake Forest College EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Joy Harlos COPY AND PROOF PAGE EDITOR Karen Myers TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1 Number 1 January 2020 EDITOR’S NOTE FORUM Thomas Pearson 5 Introduction: The Teaching Legacy of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon 85 Kwok Pui Lan ARTICLES Teaching Religion to Undergraduates in the Teaching the Canon and Cannon Formation 2020s: A Preliminary Reconnaissance 9 as Incarnation and Conjure: Dr. Katie Geneva Eugene V. Gallagher and Joanne Maguire Cannon as Womanist Mentor and Muse 87 Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas Living and Teaching When Change is the New Normal: Trends in Theological Education Creating Our Better Selves: The Fruits of Katie and the Impact on Teaching and Learning 23 Cannon’s Womanist Pedagogy 93 Frank M. Yamada Karen K. Seat Arguing the Mystery: Teaching Critical Thinking Personalizing Katie’s Canon 97 in the Theology Classroom 37 Miguel A. De La Torre Anthony D. Baker Deep Breaths and High Impact Aerobics: Reflecting on Teaching Writing in the Key CONVERSATION of Katie Geneva Cannon 101 Conversation with Maryellen Weimer 47 Angela D. Sims Maryellen Weimer, Eugene V. Gallagher, Kwok Pui Lan, and Thomas Pearson Reflections on the Pedagogy of My Professor and Mentor Katie Geneva Cannon 107 Edwin David Aponte SPECIAL TOPIC Introduction: Threshold Concepts in the TEACHING TACTICS Undergraduate Biblical Studies Classroom 59 Thomas Pearson Zoom in on Interpretive Skills 111 Amy Beth Jones and Stephanie Day Powell Transformative Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Toward a Threshold Concept The Buddha’s Positionality 112 Framework for Biblical Studies 61 Christina A. Kilby John Van Maaren Maximizing Engagement between Online and Teaching the Bible as a Threshold Concept in On-Campus Students Via Zoom 113 a Liberal Arts Context 79 Daniel Orlando Álvarez Tat-siong Benny Liew Does This Sound Religious? 114 Crossing the Threshold by Unlearning the Amy DeRogatis and Isaac Weiner “Truth” in Biblical Studies 81 Richard S. Ascough All Interpretations Are Subjective 83 Jocelyn McWhirter TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK REVIEWS Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy Creating a Data-Informed Culture in (International Issues in Adult Education, Community Colleges: A New Model for Volume, 27) 115 Educators 124 edited by Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh by Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz Reviewed by Katherine Daley-Bailey Reviewed by James R. Wilson Issues in Applying SLA Theories toward Educating for Creativity within Higher Reflective and Effective Teaching 116 Education: Integration of Research into edited by Mitra Zeraatpishe, Akram Faravani, Hamid Media Practice 125 Reza Kargozari, and Maryam Azarnoosh by Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Reviewed by Paul Overland Susan Kerrigan, and Michael Meany Reviewed by Andrea Janelle Dickens Vocation across the Academy: A New Vocabulary for Higher Education 117 Implementing Communities of Practice edited by David S. Cunningham in Higher Education: Dreamers and Reviewed by Frederick W. Schmidt Schemers 126 edited by Jacquie McDonald and Aileen Creativity and Critique in Online Learning: Cater-Steel Exploring and Examining Innovations Reviewed by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe in Online Pedagogy 119 edited by Jacqueline Baxter, George Callaghan, and Higher Education and Social Justice: Jean McAvoy The Transformative Potential of University Reviewed by Rob O’Lynn Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox 127 Pedagogies for Building Cultures of Peace: By Leonie Rowan Challenging Constructions of an Enemy: Reviewed by Matthew Bersagel Braley International Issues in Adult Education, Volume 25 120 by Catherine Baillie Abidi Reviewed by Ryan Korstange Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles 121 edited by Harry Denny, Robert Mundy, Liliana M. Naydan, Richard Sévère, and Anna Sicari Reviewed by Zandra L. Jordan The Religious Studies Skills Book: Close Reading, Critical Thinking, and Comparison 122 by Eugene V. Gallagher and Joanne Maguire Reviewed by Molly H. Bassett Teaching across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission 123 by James E. Plueddemann Reviewed by Eduardo C. Fernández EDITOR’S NOTE Thomas Pearson Editor Welcome to the new open-access, online, Wabash Center Journal on Teaching.1 This is the inaugural issue of a journal that has a long history and rich pedigree. For twenty-two years the Wabash Center2 has been publishing Teaching Theology & Religion3 (TTR), owned by Wiley-Blackwell. Now we’ve moved our whole editorial team from TTR to this new publishing venture in order to make our efforts available digitally without subscription. Although the Wabash Center will no longer be involved in the publication of TTR, Wiley-Blackwell intends to continue publishing it with a new editorial team4 beginning with volume 23 (January 2020). When we started TTR as a new and unknown center for teaching in the 1990s, we needed the prestige of a major publisher in the field of religion and theology to lend gravitas to the emerging field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. But for many years now we have regretted the paywall our articles have lived behind, limiting our ability to promote this schol- arship, support authors, and inspire readers. The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching will continue publishing the high-quality, peer reviewed scholarship on teaching in the fields of theological and religious studies that has been the hallmark of TTR for over two decades. The new journal carries forward the same scope and focus of scholarship – but now our efforts will be freely available online. In the new journal you’ll find the popular Teaching Tactics. In addition to Forums (with contributions now listed individual- ly) we will also highlight Special Topic sections. And the new journal reintroduces Book Reviews, which were removed from TTR in 2015 to allow more space for articles in the print journal. So while you’ll find The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching familiar, you will also begin to notice new developments. The open-access online platform allows us to provide convenient links to sources on the internet and links back to previously published articles. But more than that, the new platform provides the opportunity for The Wabash Center Journal on Teach- ing to become more than just a print journal available online. It’s easy to insert links to video clips, graphics, or sound files – although these links must be found on the web or created by authors. It takes a leap of imagination to conceive how teaching issues and contexts, arguments and evidence, could be represented graphically, in motion, visually. Until now, the written word would have seemed to be the distinctive home for sustained rigorous, reflection on teaching. But we’re moving into a new world in which the “text” that creates and makes legible academic thinking needn’t be limited to words on a page. So we issue this challenge to our readers and authors: send us5 sustained critical reflection on your teaching practice and context that explores the boundaries and possibilities of representational forms and genres available on an open-access online platform. In this inaugural issue we’re excited to publish a Teaching Tactic by Daniel Alvarez6 that includes video clips and slides that provide how-to instructions and an actual illustration of Zoom breakout rooms for group discussions that combine online and on-campus students. The Tactic by Amy DeRogatis and Isaac Weiner7 links through to sound clips on the Religious 1 https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/journal/ 2 https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/ 3 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679647 4 Graduate Theological Union. 2019. “GTU and Wiley to Partner for Teaching Theology & Religion in 2020.” https://www.gtu.edu/news/gtu-and-wiley-partner-teach- ing-theology-religion-2020. 5 https://serials.atla.com/wabashcenter/Make_Submission 6 https://doi.org/10.31046/wabashjournal.v1i1.1495 7 https://doi.org/10.31046/wabashjournal.v1i1.1521 2020; 1:1 5–7 The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching 5 EDITOR’S NOTE Sounds Project database,8 demonstrating in itself how scholarly