Saint Anselm College
Religious Diversity
Issues relating to tolerance and hospitality for multiple religious viewpoints on campus.
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Religious Diversity at SAC
Feb 1st
This section is for discussion of issues relating to tolerance and hospitality for multiple religious viewpoints on campus.
- Questions to discuss might include:
- What should be the status of other religions at a Catholic, Benedictine College? Can we welcome people of other religions while still maintaining belief in the truth of our religion?
- How religious are most students at SAC? Have you encountered religious intolerance, either for your religious views or your lack of them?
- How should SAC react to atheists, agnostics, or people for whom religion plays little role? Have you had any experience with how non-religious people are treated on campus?
- Do Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Protestant persons face special challenges at the college? How can we welcome them while still preserving the Catholic character of the college?
- Do all religions share a common core of beliefs that makes it possible to make adherents of all religions welcome here? Are some religions more true than others?
- How should different religions be represented in the curriculum? is it valuable for even non-catholics to take theology? Should Catholic students have to study other religions?
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Difference Reveals Essence
Jan 14th
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As biological specimens, humans vary in innumerable ways, small and large, but not all biological difference is the kind of diversity we celebrate. Diversity involves the differences that matter, that reveal our essences and that challenge our self concepts. We are revealed to ourselves by what we recognize as diversity and how we respond to it. Differences can matter to us in two different ways, in ways that celebrate who we are and in ways the challenge it. More >