This course introduces students to Catholic documents that have both explicit and implicit implications for Catholic education. The objective of the course, therefore, is to enable students to read these texts closely with a view to drawing out the implications, particularly the first-principles, cultural context, and the key educational issues. Attention will be paid to the pedagogical, theological, cultural, social and foundational issues contained in these texts. The text will also be read through an applied hermeneutical method. As this is a course in reading primary texts, students will be expected to become very knowledgeable of the texts assigned each week.
Catholic Educational Documents
- Instructor: Dr. Cynthia Cameron
- Day: Wednesday
- Time: 19:00-21:00
- Location: AH402
This course introduces students to Catholic documents that have both explicit and implicit implications for Catholic education. The objective of the course, therefore, is to enable students to read these texts closely with a view to drawing out the implications, particularly the first-principles, cultural context, and the key educational issues. Attention will be paid to the pedagogical, theological, cultural, social and foundational issues contained in these texts. The text will also be read through an applied hermeneutical method. As this is a course in reading primary texts, students will be expected to become very knowledgeable of the texts assigned each week.
Dr. Cynthia Cameron
Assistant Professor of Religious Education
- PhD (Boston College)
Teaching and Research Interests
- Religious Education
- Catholic Education
- Catholic Schools
- Theological Anthropology
- Feminist Theology
- Liberative Pedagogy
- Adolescents and Young Adults
Dr. Cynthia Cameron is Assistant Professor of Religious Education and the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Chair in Religious Education at the Faculty of Theology.Ā Dr. Cameron teaches core courses within the Masters of Religious Education program, including Faith Development Across the Lifespan and Catholic Educational Documents, as well as a wide variety of elective courses in religious education.Ā Ā
Dr. Cameron completed her BA at Denison University and has masterās degrees from Yale Divinity School and the Catholic University of America; she did additional theological studies at Washington Theological Union.Ā She earned her PhD in Theology and Education at Boston College in 2017 and served as assistant professor of religious studies at Rivier University in New Hampshire and as an adjunct instructor at Sacred Heart University, Boston College, and Loyola University, New Orleans.
She is currently working on a book for undergraduate introductory theology courses entitled Life Abundant: God and the Created Order to be published in spring 2022.Ā She is co-editor of a volume exploring adolescents, mistake-making, and religious education.Ā In preparation is her book, based on her dissertation, that considers adolescent girls, theological anthropology, and all-girls’ Catholic schools.
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SMP3428H
Catholic Educational Documents
Winter 2022- Instructor: Dr. Cynthia Cameron
- Day: Wednesday
- Time: 19:00-21:00
- Location: AH402
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SMP3446H
The Educator and Theology
Winter 2022- Instructor: Dr. Cynthia Cameron
- Day: Saturday
- Time: 11:00-13:00
- Location: AH304
- Cynthia L. Cameron, āWill You Talk With Me? An Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Religious Studies,ā InSight: Rivier Academic Journal 16, no. 1 (Fall 2020): https://www2.rivier.edu/journal/ ROAJ-Fall-2020/J1184_Cameron.pdf
- Cynthia L. Cameron, āA Cry in the Wilderness: Young Women, Cutting, and Catholic Theology,ā InSight: Rivier Academic Journal 15, no. 1 (Fall 2019): https://www2.rivier.edu/journal/ROAJ-Fall-2019/J1118_Cameron_A%20Cry%20in%20the%20Wilderness.pdf
- Cynthia L. Cameron and Christopher J. Welch, Life Abundant: God and the Created Order in Catholic Social Perspective (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2022).
- Cynthia L. Cameron, āFrancisā Theological Anthropology of Young Adults: Christus Vivit as Resource for Undergraduate Theological Educators,ā in The Human in a Dehumanizing World: Reimagining Theological Anthropology and Its Implications ed. Daniel Horan and Jessica Coblentz (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2022).
- Review of The Spirituality of Anorexia: A Goddess Feminist Thealogy by Emma White in āReading Religion,ā American Academy of Religion (2021): https://readingreligion.org/ books/spirituality-anorexia.
- Review of Human Dependency and Christian Ethics by Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar in āReading Religion,ā American Academy of Religion (2020): https://readingreligion.org/books/human-dependency-and-christian-ethics
- Review of The Church as Woman and Mother: Historical and Theological Foundations by Cristina Lledo Gomez in Horizons 46, no. 2 (December 2019): 392-394.
- Review of Into Silence and Solitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 by Brian Titley in āReading Religion,ā American Academy of Religion (2019): http://readingreligion.org/books/silence-and-servitude.
- Review of Daughters in the Hebrew Bible by Kimberly D. Russaw in āReading Religion,ā American Academy of Religion (2019): http://readingreligion.org/books/daughters-hebrew-bible.