Interfaith Dialogue and Higher Education

Autor/in	Ray, S. Alan
Titel	Interfaith Dialogue and Higher Education
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 96 (2010) 3, S.38-45 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Cooperation; Religious Organizations; Intergroup Relations; Religion; Higher Education; General Education; Group Behavior; Social Change; Religious Factors; College Students; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Co-operation; Kooperation; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Gruppenverhalten; Sozialer Wandel; Collegestudent
Abstract	In the Fall of 2009, the author participated in the sixth conference of Interfaith Youth Core, an organization and social movement devoted to building "mutal respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions by empowering them to work together to serve others". On that occasion, Dr. Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, raised a significant question that has since set the author thinking: Given how other social movements have deeply affected curricula, student programming, and institutional priorities, what is the highest aspiration one can set for colleges and universities around interfaith cooperation? In this article, the author discusses two main ways to understand and respond to this question. He sketches two models namely (1) interfaith cooperation as participation in a zero-sum game; and (2) interfaith cooperation as critical reappropriation of tradition. The first model presents a kind of zero-sum game, where interfaith cooperation achieves its impact by displacing the effects of other social movements. The second model eschews stereotypes of the secular and religious, and it recognizes that all faiths, including secularism, are living realities conditioned by multiple cultural currents--currents that affect religious, nonreligious, and even antireligious philosophies alike. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10