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How can campus life become more hospitable to the human spirit? This book invites everyone concerned with the quality and meaning of campus life to engage in new conversations about the spiritual and religious dimensions of diversity, leadership, student development, and learning. This book challenges conventions in higher education that neglect religious identity and spiritual exploration while perpetuating disconnection, competition, and separation from our natural and social environments. It offers innovative approaches for positive change, while addressing the complex legal, organizational, and cultural issues involved in this conversation. Grounded in original research and professional practice, this collection includes reflections from college presidents, campus leaders, student affairs staff members, and faculty. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Introduction

Part 1. Religious Pluralism and Spirituality in Campus Life: Issues and Approaches
ch. 1 "Losing Our Religion": Are Students Struggling in Silence? (Judy Raper)
ch. 2 Student Religious Organizations and the Public University (Jennifer L. Walters)
ch. 3 The Education as Transformation Project (Peter Laurence and Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr.)
ch. 4 Making and Maintaining a Religious Pluralism and Spirituality Group: A Case Study from a Jewish Sponsored Nonsectarian University(Ora Gladstone)
ch. 5 Religion, Spirituality, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Marie V. McDemond, Arthur R. Jackson and Jacqueline A. Curtis)
ch. 6 I Do and I Understand: The Self Knowledge Symposium Model for Spiritual (Mary Alice Scott, Georg Buehler and Kenny Felder))
ch. 7 Looking at Diversity through the Lens of Religion and Spirituality: The Manhattanville Experience (Margaret L. Causey and Richard A. Berman)
ch. 8 Dancing on the Edge (Leon Tilson Burrows)

Part 2. Spirituality and Leadership: Self and Organizational Transformation
ch. 9 Private Conversations about Public Spirituality (Sarah Stockton)
ch. 10 Learning to Connect: Spirituality and Leadership (Kathleen E. Allen and Gar Kellom)
ch. 11 The College Campus as a Web of Sociality (Gil Stafford)
ch. 12 Spirituality in Student Affairs: A Practitioner's Perspective (Margaret A. Jablonski)
ch. 13 Unpacking the Knapsack in Not a Picnic (Katja Hahn d'Errico)

Part 3. Integrating Spirituality into Learning and Life on Campus
ch. 14 Innate Mental Health: Tapping the Divine Gift for Learning and Well-being (Joel Grossman)
ch. 15 Creating a Learning Community and the Core Values of Spirituality (Fan Yihong)
ch. 16 Approaches to Conflict from Spiritual and Religious Perspectives: Lessons for Student Affairs (Patricia E. Martin)
ch. 17 Civility and Spirituality (Jane Fried)
ch. 18 Higher Education and Eco-Justice (Alberto Arenas)
ch. 19 Transforming Campus Life: Conclusions and Other Questions (Vachel W. Miller)

List of Contributors