Davina C. Lopez is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Letters (Humanities) Collegium, Eckard College, USA.Thomas Pearson is Director of the Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts at Eckerd College, USA.

• Introduction: A Teaching Festschrift for Gene and Patricia, Thomas Pearson (Eckerd College, USA)Part 1: Plan 1. Midrange Reflection for the Climate Rebellion: How the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Can Inform Activism, Kevin J. O’Brien(Pacific Lutheran University, USA)2. Paschal Pedagogy, Mara Brecht (Loyola University Chicago, USA)3. Art and the Unexpected, Alicia J. Batten (Conrad Grebel University College, Canada)4. Laughter in the Temple: Hermeneutics and Humor in Teaching Religion, Anita Houck (Saint Mary's College - Notre Dame, USA)5. Planning for Playfulness, Richard S. Ascough (Queens University, Canada)6. The Tao of the Post-It: Empowering Student Engagement in Gene Gallagher’s Classroom, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo (Fairfield University, USA)7. Taking the General Education Student Seriously, Bruce David Forbes (Morningside College, USA, emeritus)8. The Challenges of Teaching as Racial and Ethnic Minority Scholars, Kwok Pui-lan (Candler School of Theology, USA)9. The Magic or Midrange Reflection Molly H. Bassett (Georgia State University, USA)Part 2: Persona 10. Overcoming Fears of a Normative Valence, Susan Marks (New College of Florida, USA)11. A Vulnerable Persona: Wrestling with the Legacy of Jean Vanier, Reid B. Locklin (University of Toronto, Canada) and Andrea Nicole Carandang (University of Toronto, Canada)12. “Ungrading” and the Unmaking of Professorial Persona, Kathryn D. Blanchard (Alma College, USA)13. Tennis, Anyone? Joanne Maguire (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)Part 3: Place 14. Who Is in the Chair? The Professor Faces the Classroom, Arthur M. Sutherland (Loyola University Maryland, USA)15. Finding Your Place on the Map, Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)16. Mise en Place: Efficiency and Ethics in the Practice of Teaching,Tina Pippin (Agnes Scott College, USA)17. Teaching About Religion and/at/as the Edge: From What toHow to Why, Davina C. Lopez (Eckerd College, USA)List of Contributors Index

Teaching and Learning Religion celebrates the incredible pedagogical legacy of Patricia Killen and Gene Gallagher. Through a variety of engaging and well-researched case studies from diverse perspectives, their students make this legacy tangible for readers. The chapters illustrate how scholars of religion can engage students in the classroom and enliven the study of religion in the twenty-first century.