{"id":4469,"date":"2014-11-12T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2014-11-12T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:47:48","slug":"rea-last-day-of-the-2014-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/11\/rea-last-day-of-the-2014-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"REA: Last day of the 2014 conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(em>Above:<\/em> Yes, there were arts and crafts at the Religious Education Association 2014 conference. In keeping with the more interactive approach at the 2014 conference, there were several opportunities for conferees to participate in interactive projects around the topic of unmaking violence. Here, conferees decorate a “peace pole.”<\/p>\n

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Above:<\/em> REA president-elect Mai-an Tranh, professor at Eden Theological Seminary, speaking at the final plenary session: wrapping up this year’s conference, and tying this year’s conference topic to next year’s topic. Tranh used Henry A Giroux’s “disimagination machine” as a central theme in her talk.<\/p>\n

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Above:<\/em> In the final plenary, Evelyn L. Parker of Perkins School of Theology led conferees in an interactive theatre exercise. She invited ten conferees to imagine with their bodies what the “disimagination machine” might look and feel like. Then she invited the rest of us “spec-actors” to disassemble the machine. In the photo above, a conferee is gently removing a piece of the machine.<\/p>\n

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Above:<\/em> The close of the conference, just before the business meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(em>Above: Yes, there were arts and crafts at the Religious Education Association 2014 conference. In keeping with the more interactive approach at the 2014 conference, there were several opportunities for conferees to participate in interactive projects around the topic of unmaking violence. Here, conferees decorate a “peace pole.” Above: REA president-elect Mai-an Tranh, professor at … Continue reading “REA: Last day of the 2014 conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,12],"tags":[445,447,139],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-religion","category-religious-education","tag-rea14","tag-rea15","tag-religious-education-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}