Hearing Vocation Differently

Meaning, Purpose, and Identity in the Multi-Faith Academy

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-088867-1 (ISBN)

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Many colleges and universities have begun using the language of vocation, which originates in Christian theology, to help undergraduates think about their futures. The contributors to this volume seek to reexamine and re-think this language for the contemporary multi-faith context.

Many colleges and universities have begun using the language of vocation and calling to help undergraduates think about the future direction of their lives. This language is used in both secular and religious contexts, but it has deep roots in the Christian theological tradition. Given the increasingly multi-faith context of undergraduate life, many have asked whether this terminology can truly serve as a new vocabulary for higher education. If vocation is to find a foothold in the contemporary context, it will need to be re-examined, re-thought, and re-written; in short, higher education will need to undertake the project of hearing vocation differently.

In this third volume on vocation from editor David S. Cunningham, the thirteen contributing scholars identify with a wide variety of religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. Some contributors identify with more than one of these; others would claim none of them. The authors met on multiple occasions to read common texts, to discuss agreements and differences, and to respond to one another's writing; some of these responses are included at the end of each chapter.

Both individually and collectively, these contributors expand the range of vocational reflection and discernment well beyond its traditional Christian origins. The authors observe that all undergraduate students-regardless of their academic field, religious background, or demographic identity-need to make space for reflection, to overcome obstacles to discernment, and to consider the significance of their own narratives, beliefs, and practices. This, in turn, will require college campuses to re-imagine their curricular and co-curricular programming in order to support their students's reflection on issues of meaning, purpose, and identity.

David S. Cunningham is Director of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), Council of Independent Colleges. As Director of the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project, he developed this volume as well as two previous books on vocation and higher education. He is Professor of Religion at Hope College, where he also serves as Director of the CrossRoads Project. He is the author of five books and editor of four collections on various topics in religion, ethics, and higher education.

Foreword
Richard H. Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges

Preface
Vocations of the Contributors

Introduction
Hearing and Being Heard: Rethinking Vocation in the Multi-Faith Academy
David S. Cunningham

Part One: Reframing Vocation: Creating Spaces for New Ways of Hearing
Chapter 1
The Change a Difference Makes: Formation of Self in the Encounter with Diversity
Rachel S. Mikva

Chapter 2
Reviving Sheila: Listening to the Call of Multiple Religious Belonging
Katherine (Trina) Janiec Jones

Chapter 3
The Call of Death and the Depth of Our Callings: The Quality of Vocational Discernment
Rahuldeep Gill

Part Two: Releasing Expectations: Overcoming Misleading Assumptions about Vocation
Chapter 4
Doubt as an Integral Part of Calling: The Qur'anic Story of Joseph
Younus Y. Mirza

Chapter 5
Gracious Reception: The Christian Case for Hearing Vocation Differently
David S. Cunningham

Chapter 6
Renunciation of Vocation and Renunciation within Vocation: Contributions from the Bhagavadgita
Anantanand Rambachan

Part Three: Restor(y)ing our Lives: Narrative as a Vocational Catalyst
Chapter 7
Called by Our Conflicting Allegiances: Vocation as an Interfaith Endeavor / Interfaith Cooperation as a Vocation
Noah J. Silverman

Chapter 8
The Story of Me: A Myth-understanding of Vocation
Matthew R. Sayers

Chapter 9
Attentiveness and Humor: Vocation as Awakening to Self
Homayra Ziad

Part Four: Re-imagining our Campuses: The Practice(s) of Hearing Vocation Differently
Chapter 10
Response-ability in Practice: Discerning Vocation through Campus Relationships
Florence D. Amamoto

Chapter11
The Vocation of Church-Related Colleges in a Multi-Faith World: Educating for Religious Pluralism
Jacqueline A. Bussie

Chapter 12
Vocational Exploration as Transformative Pedagogy: Retrieving the Affective, Educating for Difference
Tracy Wenger Sadd

Chapter 13
Do You Love Us? Higher Education as an Interfaith Conversation about the Good Life
Jeffrey Carlson

Epilogue
Hearing in a New Key: Vocation beyond the Limits of Reason Alone
David S. Cunningham

Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-19-088867-9 / 0190888679
ISBN-13	978-0-19-088867-1 / 9780190888671
Zustand	Neuware