SCUPE-PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S REL2015 - INTERFAITH RELATIONS AND REL (SC P302)
Term: 2015-2016 Fall Semester
Description
SCUPE is taking our Interfaith Relations course on the road to Salt Lake City, Utah. The 2015 Parliament of the World?s Religions will be our contextual learning site. Although we live in the United States as the most religiously diverse nation in the world according to Harvard?s Diana Eck, many churches and Christians have yet to develop adequate theologies of the ?other.? Thus in day-to-day situations of common life, or when conflicts based on religious difference arise in our local communities or around the world, such churches and Christians find their response and engagement inadequate. Using the 2015 Parliament of the World?s Religions as our learning laboratory, this seven-day experiential course provides students an opportunity to engage with religious communities and global faith leaders other than their own faith. Methods, skills and tools for engagement will be covered. Using insights from this Parliament experience, students will create a framework for a theology of solidar