From Cloister To Commons: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Religious Studies (Service-learning in the Disciplines)

This volume, like its series companions, goes beyond simple "how-to" to discuss the implementation of service-learning within religious studies and what that discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service learning. The volume contains both theoretical and pedagogical essays by scholar-teachers in religious studies education, plus a resource guide.

Volume Editors: Richard Devine is professor of moral theology at St. John's University in New York City. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The second edition of his textbook on medical ethics, Good Care: Painful Choices, was published by Paulist Press in 2000. He also is the NGO representative to the United Nations for the Congregation of the Mission, a world-wide religious community of priests and brothers. Joseph A. Favazza is associate professor of religious studies and director of interdisciplinary humanities at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He and Michael McLain coordinate the Rhodes service-learning initiative. He recently spent five months in Romania as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and is the author of The Pedagogy of Service Learning: Perspectives and Proposals in Religious Studies News (September 1999). F. Michael McLain is the R.A. Webb professor of religious studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He and Joseph A. Favazza coordinate the Rhodes service-learning initiative. He founded the Associated Colleges of the South Service-Learning Maymester in Honduras and has led ser­vice-learning trips to South Africa.