A Case for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Seiple, Chris; Hoover, Dennis R.
• Is Part Of: Review of faith & international affairs. Volume 19:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 13
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: religious literacy -- cross-cultural -- pluralism -- engagement -- multi-faith -- evaluation -- negotiation -- communication; Law -- Periodicals; Religion and politics -- Periodicals; Law; Religion and politics; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 201.705
• DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2021.1874165
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1557-0274

Abstract

Abstract : Cross-cultural religious literacy is a comprehensive approach to understanding and conducting the kind of engagement that distinguishes robust, covenantal pluralism from merely indifferent "tolerance" of diversity. Such an approach teaches, respectively, the personal and comparative competencies of knowledge about self, and about the other, as well as the collaborative context in which this knowledge is applied. This approach also teaches the skills—evaluation, negotiation, and communication—of moving toward the other such that shared goals can be identified and implemented.