Teaching mysteries : foundations of a spiritual pedagogy
"By carefully examining a handful of great exemplars of teaching from various spiritual traditions and cultural contexts, this book breaks new ground in helping both prospective and practicing teachers discover and deepen their sense of spiritual calling. The masters examined in this book are found in many venues. Some appear in biographies, such as Yogananda, the great Hindu saint of the 20th century, in his Autobiography of a Yogi, or Eugene Herrigel and his Zen archery master in Zen in the Art of Archery. Some are enshrined in literature, such as St. Thomas More in Robert Bolt's dramatization of More's life, A Man for All Seasons. Others, like the Yaqui medicine man Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan, occupy an intriguing region that moves on the misty boundaries between biography and fiction. A few even reside in academia - among them the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, author of the twentieth-century theological classic I and Thou."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2005
University Press of America, Lanham, Md., ©2005
xi, 106 pages ; 22 cm
9780761829508, 0761829504
60342688
Introduction: The teacher and the rain king
The politics of the spirit in the classroom
Teaching as meeting and prophecy
Lucre and wonder
An intuitive pedagogy
Pedagogy, relationship and the miraculous
Death and resurrection in the classroom
Conclusion: Curriculum, instruction, and transcendence