Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Cloud of (un)knowing

For today's final session of "Theorizing Religion," I painstakingly recreated the word cloud we generated three months ago (compressed from filling the board to filling the area on which I could project my photo of the board that day), and invited students to fill in the space opened up as they shared their final reflections on the course. New words swirl arond the old on the left, right and bottom: power, center, pluralism, DIY, infinite, hermeneutics, ineffable, self-identification, community, and of course never ending! Someone's added the word challenge twice, once with (yourself, your beliefs), once itself in parentheses after authority. And one student mixed a word in with the original words three times: truth, TRUTH, truth. There's room for more!