Interreligious Education for the Millennial Generation

Abstract

The author, in this chapter, offers practical strategies (in both a large university and small liberal arts college setting) for educating students on how to become active learners in the classroom so that their conceptualization of religious worlds expands beyond stereotypes. Throughout, it explores methods the author has found successful for creating environments of active learning inside and outside the classroom space. The author discusses how to adapt Judith Berling’s method for interreligious education to the millennial generation, so that students enter other religious worlds through art, texts, and narratives and continue their individualized learning by leading reflections upon such encounters. Furthermore, the chapter presents useful methods for carefully constructing contextual education that supports the student’s encounter with religious traditions. The study concludes that engaged educational environments for interreligious learning complement the learning styles of the creativity seeking and collaborative millennial generation.