Teaching the Catholic religion in the University setting is very challenging especially now that we are living in thepostmodern world. In the context of the postmodern world, there can arise two questions： First; ＂H...Teaching the Catholic religion in the University setting is very challenging especially now that we are living in thepostmodern world. In the context of the postmodern world, there can arise two questions： First; ＂Having in mind achallenge of the postmodern world, that is incredulity to grand narratives, is it better to remove the Catholic religionin the curriculum since it is a form of a grand narrative？＂ And second; ＂Having in mind a phenomenon that thepostmodern world brings which is hyperreality, what happens to the teacher and to the student of the Catholicreligion in the classroom？＂ This paper will try to make sense of those questions by exploring first our postmodernworld through the lens of two great postmodern philosophers namely Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.展开更多
文摘Teaching the Catholic religion in the University setting is very challenging especially now that we are living in thepostmodern world. In the context of the postmodern world, there can arise two questions： First; ＂Having in mind achallenge of the postmodern world, that is incredulity to grand narratives, is it better to remove the Catholic religionin the curriculum since it is a form of a grand narrative？＂ And second; ＂Having in mind a phenomenon that thepostmodern world brings which is hyperreality, what happens to the teacher and to the student of the Catholicreligion in the classroom？＂ This paper will try to make sense of those questions by exploring first our postmodernworld through the lens of two great postmodern philosophers namely Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.
