Acting Religious: Theatre as Pedagogy in Religious Studies (available on Amazon)
My passion is embodied learning. Through many years of teaching, I’ve learned that students engage with material best when their bodies are active participants in the learning process.Today, people are torn by conflict, fractured by cultural, religious, racial, and economic divides. Religion has often been a prime motivator for this violence. Classrooms must be places in which we learn to hold differences and commonalities. Classrooms are opportunities to rehearse, to practice, how we want to live with one another.
Examples of Articles
“Casting Out Fear.” In Encountering the Sacred, 2018, Rebecca Todd Peters and Grace Yia-Hei Kao.
“Rehearsing Justice: Theatre, Sexuality and the Sacred” In Feminist Theology (journal). 2017.
“Forward” to the play Maryam, A Woman of Bethlehem. Draft of what was later published in Ecumenica Journal, 2020.
See CV for more of Victoria’s writing work