Week 8: Rhegille Baltazar
Week 8
Rhegille Baltazar
This week's theme focuses on spirituality and the academy. The two readings focus on the debate of spirituality's place in the academy, specifically indigenous spirituality. Wyld and Frederick's article about the Earth Song talks about the significance of the Earth Song and how its study takes hold within indigenous academics and indigenous ways of knowing.
This is a epistemological and ontological debate. Who are we as Western scholars of the university to determine what is or isn't academic in regards to what people know what they know and how people know what they know? Their reality is not our own so who are we to say it belongs in the academy or not? Thus, I take a critique on academia which tends to deny indigenous spirituality because of its emphasis on mythos over logos. YET, Why is religious studies a major topic? Why exactly is that an accepted field of study in academia? I conclude that it is because it mostly focused on Western religious and thus, indigeneity is marginalized within academia.
Rhegille Baltazar
This week's theme focuses on spirituality and the academy. The two readings focus on the debate of spirituality's place in the academy, specifically indigenous spirituality. Wyld and Frederick's article about the Earth Song talks about the significance of the Earth Song and how its study takes hold within indigenous academics and indigenous ways of knowing.
This is a epistemological and ontological debate. Who are we as Western scholars of the university to determine what is or isn't academic in regards to what people know what they know and how people know what they know? Their reality is not our own so who are we to say it belongs in the academy or not? Thus, I take a critique on academia which tends to deny indigenous spirituality because of its emphasis on mythos over logos. YET, Why is religious studies a major topic? Why exactly is that an accepted field of study in academia? I conclude that it is because it mostly focused on Western religious and thus, indigeneity is marginalized within academia.
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