Mary Shepard Wong is a Professor in the Global Studies, Sociology and TESOL Department, Azusa Pacific University, USA. She is the co-editor of Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning (with C. Kristjánsson and Z. Dörnyei, 2013, Routledge) and Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue (with A.S. Canagarajah, 2009, Routledge).

Ahmar Mahboob is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the co-editor of Language and Identity across Modes of Communication (with D.N. Djenar and K. Cruickshank, 2015, Mouton De Gruyter) and English in Multilingual Contexts (with L. Barratt, 2014, Springer). 

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Suresh Canagarajah: Complexifying Our Understanding of Spirituality

Chapter 1. Mary Shepard Wong: Introduction: Why A Book on Spirituality and Language Teaching? 

Part I. Religious Faith and Teacher Identity

Chapter 2. Mary Shepard Wong: The Dangers and Delights of Teacher Spiritual Identity as Pedagogy

Chapter 3. MaryAnn Christison: Buddhist Principles and the Development Leadership Skills in English Language Program Administration and Teaching

Chapter 4. Joel Heng Hartse and Saeed Nazari: Attempting Interfaith Dialogue in TESOL: A Duoethnography

Chapter 5. Ryuko Kubota: Response to Part I: Possibilities For Nonattachment: Investigating the Affective Dimension of Imposition

Part II. Religious Faith and Pedagogical Practice

Chapter 6. Sid Brown: A Buddhist in the Classroom Revisited

Chapter 7. Bal Krishna Sharma: The Relevance of Hinduism to English Language Teaching and Learning

Chapter 8. Stephanie Vandrick: Multiple, Complex and Fluid Religious and Spiritual Influences on English Language Educators

Chapter 9. David Smith: Response to Part II: 'Religious Faith' and 'Pedagogical Practice' - Extending the Map: A Response to Brown, Sharma and Vandrick

Part III. Religious Faith and the Language Learning Context

Chapter 10. Kassim Shaaban: Language and Religion in the Construction of the Lebanese Identity 

Chapter 11. Deena Boraie, Atta Gebril and Raafat Gabriel: Teachers' Perceptions of the Interface between Religious Values and Language Pedagogy in Egypt

Chapter 12. Carolyn Kristjánsson: Church-Sponsored ESL in Western Canada: Grassroots Expressions of Spiritual and Social Practice  

Chapter 13. Brian Morgan: Response to Part III: Religious Faith and the Language Learning Context: Exploring the Interface

Chapter 14. Ahmar Mahboob and Eve Courtney: Spirituality and English Language Teaching: Moving Forward

Afterword: Henry Widdowson: Spirituality in Language Teaching

This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). The chapters broaden a topic which has traditionally focused on Christianity by including Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and non-religious perspectives. They address the ways in which faith and ELT intersect in the realms of teacher identity, pedagogy and the context and content of ELT, and explore a diverse range of geographical contexts, making use of a number of different research methodologies. The book will be of particular interest to researchers in TESOL and EFL, as well as teachers and teacher trainers.