On Building a Diverse Democracy: Justice and Identity in the Twenty-First Century

Autor/in	Patel, Eboo
Titel	On Building a Diverse Democracy: Justice and Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 103 (2017) 1 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Justice; World Views; Religious Cultural Groups; Intergroup Relations; Identification (Psychology); General Education; College Programs; Educational Practices; Religious Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gerechtigkeit; World view; Weltanschauung; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Studienprogramm; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	Passionate about making interfaith cooperation the social norm in a highly diverse religious world landscape, Eboo Patel is founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core. The organization brings together young people of different religious and moral traditions for cooperative service and dialogue around shared values. In this article, which is adapted from the convocation address delivered at Oberlin College on October 2016, Patel draws from his own life experiences, ideas, and people he met as a younger person and reflects upon how they have shaped the expansion of his world view. Advocating the idea that world religions should be a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division, Patel writes that he believes a liberally educated person should recognize that, in a world of different identities, there are likely to be different definitions of justice, especially when it becomes clear that different people who have similar identities interpret various definitions differently. He advocates that diversity is not just about the differences one likes but also the differences one does not like. He reminds the students that any time they are in a room where everyone agrees with their definition of justice, it is probably not a diverse room. Patel believes that a college education is about proactively looking for the hard examples, the cases that do not fit inside one's own worldview, precisely for the purpose of expanding it. (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01