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Believe It or Not: Addressing Religion, Faith, and Spirituality on Campus

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Believe It or Not: Addressing Religion, Faith, and Spirituality on Campus

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    1. Believe It or Not: Addressing Religion, Faith, and Spirituality on Campus

    3. Wingspread Conference Religion and Public Life: Engaging in Higher Education

    4. Faculty Resistance & the Processes of Modernization and Secularization (Beyond Newton and Nietzsche)

    5. 2. Post-modernism Wallace Stevens – The final belief is to believe in a fiction, what you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is you know it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly. 3. Post-secular Era - Symbolic realism (Bellah) - Transcendent meanings - Anti-reductionist - Personal and community - Spiritual and religious

    6. Meaning Making in the New Academy

    7. An Alternative Epistemology

    8. Alternative Epistemology, continued “The preoccupation with academic objectivity precludes a self-conscious search for value and meaning, and, as a result, ‘commitment to the truth has been divorced from questions of the good’.” (Sharon Deloz Parks)

    9. Faculty Priorities

    10. Boundaries

    16. Classification of Student Learning and Development (Desired Ends) and Program Interventions (Appropriate Means) Ends/Means Culture Curriculum Co-Curriculum Community Cognitive Intrapersonal Interpersonal

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