Intersections of Religion, Race, and Citizenship in a Lutheran Secondary School

• In Event: 41.083 - Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 41.083-20 - Leadership and Citizenship in Religious Schools

Abstract

When political and popular discourse is quick to demonize the other, leaving few opportunities to dialogue and deliberate, schools are particularly important spaces in which habits that strengthen a democracy can be learned and practiced. The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of building such habits through the implementation of a lesson at a private evangelical Lutheran high school that asks students not only to reflect upon their understandings of citizenship, but that might also disrupt, from within and without the community, notions of citizenship traditionally held by conservative evangelicals.

Author

• Esther June Kim, The University of Texas - Austin