One of the great challenges of pluralism is letting others use their own vocabulary to describe themselves and then engaging those vocabularies rather than suppressing them.

The various supremacies that suffuse our cultures—along lines of gender, race, sexuality, religion, class, and others—have a habit of sneaking in around the edges even when we want to disrupt them.

Take, for example, theologian Paul Tillich’s idea that everyone’s ultimate concern should be called god.

Choosing the term god for others is not engaging with the full range of religious and nonreligious vocabularies through which pluralism thrives.

#pluralism #coalition #interbelief #interfaith #ReligiousPluralism #nonreligion

https://hcommons.social/@FromTheRostra/115531230162066673

Instead of a conflict narrative favored by our failing info ecosystem, what if we explored cooperative approaches, such as the religious/secular pluralism that thrived in the Civil Rights Movement or contemporary intersectional approaches like that by the American Humanist Association?

https://goodauthority.org/news/secular-democrats-are-on-the-rise/

#nonreligion #pluralism #secular #interbelief #coalition #Humanism #intersectionality #atheism

"We are all travelers on the same journey. Oh! how much we all need each other's tender, pitying love.... Friends, let us no longer feel unkindly to each other on account of creeds."

C. B. Reynolds, funeral oration for Ross family infant, 1885, Montezuma, NY.

#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #history #interbelief #interfaith #community #solidarity

One of my most rewarding Google Scholar alerts is set for the search phrases "felix adler" and "ethical culture," which gets more activity than I first expected.

The latest is by Dees whose article traces a similarity between critical responses to Ethical Culture and critical responses to indigenous religion: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jore.12484

#EthicalCulture #Humanism #nonreligion #interbelief

An introduction for my new instance:

My main interests are written communication, teaching writing, and education, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement explored in various contexts: rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, organizational learning, training, research, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation.

This post goes into a little more detail: https://fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/when-disagreement-is-inclusive/

Some relevant hashtags:

#CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalPedagogy #EdTech #education #EmergentStrategy #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #labor #LaborUnions #nonreligion #notetaking #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #WorkplaceCommunication #writing #WritingTools