The Religious Education Association is very pleased to announce that through the work of its Horizons book series Co-Editorial Team, two grants have been secured from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
A $5000 grant was awarded for the project, “Mentoring Authors for Public Scholarship: Exploring New Mentoring Models among Religious Education Scholars.” Through this funding, senior scholars from the Horizons Board will gather via Zoom, beginning in December 2024, for deeper reflection on the integrative, (re)creative, and co-creative nature of academic scholarship as integral to the vocation of the religious education scholar, and to consider how best to mentor emerging scholars for writing on critical issues of public life. Drs. Boyung Lee and Mai-Anh Le Tran are project directors.
A $30,000 grant was awarded for the project, “Writing Between the Avant– and Arrière-Garde: Supporting Religious Education Scholars Who Write at the Intersections of Religious Teaching and Learning.” In this initiative, a small group of emerging scholars will be chosen through a written application process to gather in Summer 2025 for a writing retreat with senior scholars. The emerging scholars will develop their own manuscript proposals in an atmosphere of reflective and supportive accompaniment, and the entire group will work to document writing strategies that serve teaching and learning within and about religions across intersecting contexts and multiple publics. Applications for this project will open in January 2025. Dr. Maureen O’Brien is project director.
We thank the Wabash Center for its generous support of these initiatives. The Religious Education Association series Horizons in Religious Education is published in cooperation with Wipf and Stock Publishers. This series publishes manuscripts defining key directions in the field of religious education.