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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Going Places: Travel Seminars as Opportunities for Interfaith Education

The Wabash Center

Author
Mikoski, Gordon
Publisher
Teaching Theology and Religion 16, no. 4 (2013): 352-361
Many theological schools use short term travel as a way to foster interfaith education. Due to their experiential, holistic, and intense nature, travel seminars focused on the promotion of interfaith learning can shape a future religious leader's outlook on religious communities across the course of her entire career. In this article I explore the pedagogical dimensions of travel seminars as a tool for interfaith education through the lens of a travel seminar to Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories.