Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in 21st Century America

by Trent, Mary Alice; Grizzle, Trevor; Sehorn, Margaret; Lang, Andrew; Rogers, Elsa

• ISBN13: 9780761835585
• ISBN10: 076183558X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-25
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Comprised of fifteen essays, Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in 21st Century America, provides a cutting-edge examination of diversity issues against the backdrop of curriculum development and outcomes in Christian higher education. The primary focus on diversity of race, ethnicity, and disabilities is explored in comparison with institutional changes in these areas that harmonize the efforts of administration, faculty, and students. Hiring practices are analyzed, as well as recruitment and retention of minority faculty and students.This works' secondary focus is on similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam regarding international customs and norms of immigrants, primarily from Africa, Asia, and India on America's Christian academia. The work is reader-friendly and recommended for students and scholars as well as for laypersons desirous of keeping pace with current diversity trends in American culture and religion.

Table of Contents

Diversity and disability : richness or roadblock to effective learning	p. 3
Building a community of learners and thinkers : an examination of black literature courses	p. 7
Cultural competence education : a user-friendly instrument to assess professional development needs	p. 29
Encouraging multicultural diversity in the curriculum	p. 47
Ebony and ivory : overcoming "the racial mountain" in the classroom while teaching Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance : an African-American perspective	p. 57
Overcoming "the racial mountain" in the classroom while teaching Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance : an Euro-American perspective	p. 63
Faculty perceptions of minority faculty difficulties in orthodox Christian institutions of higher learning	p. 69
Why engineers make good apologists	p. 85
Culture, cultural pluralism, and multiculturalism : a biblical analysis of diversity	p. 95
A study of the relationship between student satisfaction and ethnicity at a private, non-denominational Midwestern university	p. 103
Two faiths, both alike in dignity : an assessment of Muslim and Hindu paradigms of the God-world relationship	p. 123
Indian and Pakistani Christian families : challenges of diversity in 21st century America	p. 149
Global Christianity : African Christians on American college campuses	p. 169
Sustainable development : the great lie of the 21st century	p. 189
Salaam Aleykum Y'all : being Muslim in the Central Texas "Bible-belt"	p. 199
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