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Loving All Your Neighbors: Why Community Colleges Need the Academic Study of Religion
Author(s) -
Maley Melissa
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20071
Subject(s) - empathy , dominance (genetics) , relativism , sociology , pedagogy , cultural competence , psychology , social psychology , social science , public relations , epistemology , political science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This chapter explains how the study of world religions prepares the community college student to become a better citizen, worker, and neighbor. The effective middle between the pitfalls of religious relativism and religious dominance in a world religions classroom is central to this discussion of teaching critical thinking, empathy, and cross‐cultural communication.

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