Overview

How do Catholic university faculty attend to and support the prophetic imaginations of their students?   Among the treasures of the Catholic intellectual tradition, two are especially vital for contemporary Catholic education: the sacramental imagination and prophetic imagination. A sacramental imagination, as illuminated in this book’s companion Becoming Beholders, posits that God is made manifest in all the academic life. But that reality of beauty and goodness must be held in tension with the prophetic imagination—a worldview that is acutely attuned to injustices and looks with creative eyes towards a more peaceful and equitable world.    Composed of essays by faculty in Catholic higher education in various fields, Beneath the Roar and Tumult addresses this tension, with insight into practical strategies for attending to the prophetic imagination in the classroom. In the classroom, educators are called on to create spaces for their students to grapple with inequalities and to dream of an actionable way forward while cultivating a more wholistic vision of academic life in solidarity with the world outside of it. Beneath the Roar and Tumult offers practical guidance for fostering inclusion and belonging in college classrooms to provide a space where the prophetic imagination is embraced.

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Author:   Rachel Wheeler ,  Karen E. Eifler
Publisher:   Liturgical Press
Imprint:   Liturgical Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780814689592

ISBN 10:   0814689590
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface   ix                Part I: On the Rim                Engaging in critical conversations from places where disasters are witnessed, not suffered RE-UN-DIScover Heuristic: Pedagogical Practices for Imagination and Generative Action   3      Elizabeth Keenan Social Suffering and the Scholarship of Bearing Witness   16      Kathleen M. Gallagher-Brau Learning to Scale: Teaching Sustainability as a Spiritually Activated Community Practice   31      Christopher J. Cobb “What Moves the Human Heart”: Visual Art as a Catalyst for Healing, Hope, Imagination, and Justice   47      Rebecca Berrú Davis “Prophets of a Future Not Our Own”: Toward a Life of Meaning, Purpose, and Learning from the Other through Study Abroad   61      Ana Fonseca Conboy Teaching in Our Frightening Time: bell hooks and Spiritual Practices for Classrooms   76      William McDonough Energized for Freedom: Hospitality and Antiracist Pedagogy   89      Mary M. Doyle Roche Out of the Miry Clay: How Catholic Social Teaching Lifts Us from Essentialism, Moral Injury, and Suspicion   104      Esteban del Río           Part II: The Epicenter           Welcoming who and what have been excluded as we cultivate hospitality The Management Exercises: Bringing Our True Selves to Our Real Work   119      Kimberly Rae Connor and Richard W. Stackman Opening the Door: Making It Possible for Students to Remain Catholic While Staying True to Themselves   135      Anna Lännström and Jessika Crockett-Murphy “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There”: New Faculty Orientation as Radical Hospitality 146      Susanna L. Cantu Gregory Trauma-Informed Pedagogy as Sacred Hospitality   159      Jonathan M. Bowman Engaging Religious Diversity: Radical Hospitality in Catholic Universities for the Common Public Good   171      Hans Gustafson Growing Our Belonging with Nursing Students: Creating a Community of Care   185      Kala Mayer, Rachel Wheeler, and Karen E. Eifler Saint Andrew’s Abbey: An Experience of Radical Hospitality and Belonging in a Hybrid Graduate Leadership Education Course   193      Michael R. Carey and Dũng Q. Trần Managing the Chaos: Tapping the Jesuit Gifts to Form Novice Teachers   207      Thomas Knestrict           Part III: The Choice: To Speak or Not to Speak           Generating creative imagination, ethical discernment, active hope, and meaningful action Learning to Serve: A Neuroscience-Informed Scaffold to Develop Students as Community Leaders   223      Nancy A. Michael and T. M. Vanessa Chan-Devaere “Is This Class About Religion?”: Examen-ing Imaginings in Interdisciplinary Courses   239      Aaron Van Dyke and Elizabeth Boquet Empowering Students to Integrate Disciplinary and Religious Wisdom to Help Improve the World   250      Rodger Narloch Enriching Education through Interdisciplinary Integration of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Reflections on a Faculty Professional Development Project   264      Sandra L. Guzman-Foster Living Ethically in an Unethical World: Teaching Psychology Ethics through a Jesuit and Catholic Lens   277      Thomas G. Plante Acknowledging What Is While Moving Toward What Could Be in Teaching Perspectives on Social Justice   287      Anne Pitsch Santiago Humanizing the Humanities: Bridging Curriculum and Community through Story Work   297      Deogratias Fikiri, SJ, and Sarah Wadsworth “grammar of justice, / syntax of mutual aid”: Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogies of Hopeful Action   312      Cynthia R. Wallace List of Contributors   327

Reviews

“Right now, the academy needs this book to reinforce the enduring principles of Catholic social teaching and to give colleagues renewed license to anchor their pedagogy and leadership in these convictions. It reads like a conversation among colleagues, wrestling with how to translate the prophetic into the teachable. Beneath the Roar and the Tumult is not just a toolkit for good practice. Its publication is in fact, a compelling example of the prophetic imagination in action.”  Donna M. Carroll, President, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities “At a time when colleges and universities are under extraordinary political pressure to be silent rather than prophetic, this volume makes the case for why and how the religious commitments of the institutions and faculty often compel prophetic education. Experienced and pedagogically thoughtful faculty share ways of teaching that help students see and face suffering and injustice, find their voices, and be active agents of hope in the world.” Thomas M. Landy, Director, Rev. Michael C. McFarland S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, and founder of Collegium, a colloquy on faith and intellectual life “Has there been a more urgent time for cultivating the prophetic imagination in our teaching and learning spaces? Has the need for courage that emboldens us to better understand and accompany those we teach been greater? How deeply do we long to channel the kind of hope that attunes our students for the good amidst the ‘roar and tumult’ of these days and calls forth their gifts to grow it? If your pedagogical vocation, or even your weary soul, needs a shot of any of these, the wisdom curated here is sure to deliver.” Maureen O'Connell, professor of Christian ethics at La Salle University, and author of If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (Liturgical Press, 2012) and Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness (Beacon Press, 2021)

Author Information

Rachel Wheeler is associate professor of spirituality at the University of Portland and secretary of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. She has a PhD in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union, an MA in theology, specializing in monastic studies, from Saint John's School of Theology, and an MA in English from Humboldt State University. She is the author of Desert Daughters, Desert Sons: Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition (Liturgical Press, 2020). Her most recent book is Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality (Fortress Press, 2024). Karen E. Eifler is director of Collegium, the national colloquy of faith and intellectual life, and professor emerita of education at the University of Portland. She co-edited this book's companion volume, Becoming Beholders: Cultivating Sacramental Imagination and Actions in College Classrooms.  

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