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Crossing Disciplines: Beyond Religious Studies and the Health Sciences

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In this chapter, the author narrates her personal story of how Judith Berling’s model of teaching and learning helped her cross disciplines from religious studies to health sciences at a time when the Humanities (under which religious studies is classified) are under siege. It also gives an example from the author’s professional life as a community-based participatory health researcher on how Berling’s conceptualization of the learning process can be applied equally to a non-religious context as in the author’s qualitative participatory action research project. The author concludes that Berling’s mentorship and articulation of the learning process make it possible to “enter other worlds through engaging and crossing boundaries of significant difference” and, along the way, develop one’s own voice and that of others.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Judith A. Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide to Interreligious Education (New York: Maryknoll, 2004), 79.

  2. 2.

    Ibid., 80.

  3. 3.

    For purposes of this paper, “big data” refers to digital data collected in a massive scale, which are unstructured and require data analytics to determine their value.

  4. 4.

    Michael Brown, “The Sciences vs. The Humanities, a Power Struggle,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2011.

  5. 5.

    Tamara Lewin, “As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry,” New York Times, October 30, 2013.

  6. 6.

    Ibid.

  7. 7.

    Margarete Sandelowski, “Using Qualitative Research,” Qualitative Health Research 14, no. 10 (2004), http://doi.org/10.1177/10497323044269672.

  8. 8.

    Linda L. Barnes, “New Geographies of Religion and Healing: States of the Field,” Practical Matters Journal, March 1, 2011, https://np.me/p6QAmj-7G.

  9. 9.

    Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds, 64.

  10. 10.

    Melanie Birks and Jane Mills, Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide (London: Sage, 2011), 146.

  11. 11.

    Sandelowski, “Using Qualitative Research,” 1372.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., 1373.

  13. 13.

    Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Random House, Inc., 1979).

  14. 14.

    Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds, 43.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., 24.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., 25.

  17. 17.

    bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (New York: Routledge, 1994), 39–40.

  18. 18.

    Ibid., 39.

  19. 19.

    Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995), 3.

  20. 20.

    Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds, 40.

  21. 21.

    Patricia A. Holkup et al., “Community-Based Participatory Research: An Approach to Intervention Research with a Native American Community,” ANS Advances in Nursing Science 27, no. 3 (2004): 163.

  22. 22.

    Ibid.

  23. 23.

    Ibid., 164.

  24. 24.

    Sandelowski, “Using Qualitative Research,” 1371.

  25. 25.

    Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds, 65–80.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., 66.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., 72.

  28. 28.

    Melba P. Maggay, Pahiwatig: Kagawiang Pangkomunikasyon ng Pilipino [Intimations: Habitual Filipino Modes of Communications] (Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2002).

  29. 29.

    Alberto E. Alejo, Tao Po! Tuloy Po! [It’s a Person! Please Come In!] (Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990).

  30. 30.

    Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds, 74.

  31. 31.

    Vicente Rafael, “Your Grief Is Our Gossip: Overseas Filipinos and Other Spectral Presences,” Public Culture 9, no. 2 (1997): 289.

  32. 32.

    Berling, Understanding Other Religious Worlds, 79.

  33. 33.

    Ibid., 80.

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    Ofelia O. Villero

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Villero, O.O. (2018). Crossing Disciplines: Beyond Religious Studies and the Health Sciences. In: Park, J., Wu, E. (eds) Interreligous Pedagogy. Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91506-7_3

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