Religious Pluralism in the Academy (Studies in Education and Spirituality; Vol.2): Opening the Dialogue Book

	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	The Cry for Meaning	1
	Taking the World by the Throat	1
	Taking the Plunge	3
	Student Affairs Professionals: The "Hidden Educators"	6
	Overcoming Fear	10
	Three Objectives in Writing This Book	14
	My Preliminary Credo	17
	Organization of the Book	21
	A Note on Use of Resources	22
	Definitions of Several Key Terms	23
Ch. 2	The Paradox of Religious Pluralism	29
	The Reality of Religious Pluralism on College Campuses: Promise or Peril?	30
	Is Conflict Among Religious Groups Inevitable?	33
	The Paradox of Religious Pluralism	37
	Bounded Versus Unbounded Discourse	43
	When Should Intolerance Replace Tolerance?	49
	Toward Unbounded Dialogue	54
Ch. 3	Religions as Narratives (I): Three Mainstream Stories	59
	The Indispensability of Stories	59
	Narrative Construals of Reality	63
	Six Types of Religious Stories That College Students Tell	64
	Three Mainstream Stories	67
	The Orthodoxy Narrative	67
	The Wounded Belief Narrative	75
	The Mainline Narrative	83
Ch. 4	Religions as Narratives (II): Three Alternative Stories	93
	Three Alternative Stories That Students Tell	93
	The Activism Narrative	95
	The Exploration Narrative	104
	The Secular Humanism Narrative	114
Ch. 5	The Role of Religion in Fostering Values on a Secular Campus	127
	"I Am Comfortable Talking About Values...Not Religion"	128
	Learning About Earning Is Not What College Is All About	129
	It Is Neither Possible Nor Desirable to Decouple Religion and Values	133
	An Example of Coupling Values and Religion in a Colloquium	138
	We Are All Values Educators	142
	The Nineteenth-Century Capstone Seminar	144
	Is the American Professoriate Actually Religio-Phobic?	146
	My Captone Seminar on Religion and Values	148
	A Personal Memorandum to My Students on the Capstone	150
Ch. 6	One Group, Many Truths: Constructing a Moral Conversation	167
	"I'm Afraid to Open My Mouth in There for Fear of Getting Killed!"	168
	Moral Conversation Versus Adversarial Discourse	172
	Six Principles of Moral Conversation	176
	Are College Students Developmentally Ready for Moral Conversation?	189
	Establishing a Culture of Dialogue on College Campuses	195
	The Widespread Yearning for Consoling Narratives of Meaning	204
	Bibliography	207
	Index	221