{"title":"Gracious Reception","authors":"David S. Cunningham","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers an alternative account of the Christian understanding of vocation, suggesting that vocational discernment is best understood not primarily as obedience to God’s call, but rather as a disposition of “gracious reception.” The point is initially illustrated with a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, followed by an account of the role of giving and receiving in Christian theological and liturgical traditions (particularly the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper). In a multi-faith context, Christians are called to be receptive to the circumstances of others, including those who do not share their faith tradition. This perspective marks the ministry of Jesus, particularly with respect to his encounters with difference; three such encounters are used to illustrate the point. A more receptive disposition can help individuals to make better use of the advice and constructive criticism that comes from outside their own perspective.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121945678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Call of Death and the Depth of Our Callings","authors":"R. Gill","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on a reality that every human being faces: the prospect of death. When this reality is brought to the forefront, one’s callings in life take on a new element; they become more significant, operating at a greater depth. This encourages those who are undertaking vocational reflection and discernment to consider the quality of their callings, rather than simply being satisfied that they have found one. The chapter draws heavily on the poetry of Guru Nanak, considered the founder of Sikhism, whose meditations on death—and on how an awareness of death shapes one’s life—suggest a new perspective on vocation. Nanak’s approach is compared with two Christian figures, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr., who also considered how our consciousness of death shapes the quality and depth of our vocations.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116061260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renunciation of Vocation and Renunciation within Vocation","authors":"Anantanand Rambachan","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the question of whether some people might be called to renounce a vocation and turn away from their callings because of some moral, relational, or religious demand. Drawing on various elements in the Hindu tradition, the author suggests an alternative: renunciation within vocation. Focusing on various interpretations of the Bhagavadgita (and in particular, the story of Arjuna’s struggle as to whether he should fight against his cousins), the chapter argues that it may be possible to separate ourselves from attachment to certain fruits of our labors without renouncing the work itself. This, in turn, may have a number of additional benefits for various aspects of vocational reflection and discernment—including greater attention to the process of discernment (rather than its result), as well as relief from the anxiety that is generated by the demand that one’s vocation be demonstrably “productive.”","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133380754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hearing and Being Heard","authors":"David S. Cunningham","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction addresses the question of how the language of vocation and calling, with its historically Christian roots, might be redeployed in the increasingly multi-faith environment of higher education today. Colleges and universities have become more diverse, including with respect to the religious life of their students; however, these institutions have not always found ways of addressing this diversity in ways that avoid privileging the faith traditions from which particular institutional practices arise. Vocation can avoid this fate if its contours can be reshaped for the contemporary academic context. The authors seek to contribute to this outcome by examining a wide range of themes relating to vocation, working from their own particular faith tradition or lifestance. The introduction concludes with a description of the 13 chapters that are spread across the four parts of the book.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127957013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Called by Our Conflicting Allegiances","authors":"Noah Silverman","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines our allegiances to a variety of communities (including those devoted to differing faith traditions), exploring how tensions and conflicts among these allegiances are narrated. How are such conflicts resolved, and how is vocational judgment affected by these encounters? The author suggests that we should not seek to dissolve the tensions too quickly, since our allegiances typically spring from genuine commitments to communities that we hold dear. Nevertheless, a commitment to interfaith work may offer new insights, encouraging us to tell the stories of our lives and our vocational reflections in ways that acknowledge not only these various commitments but also the potential tensions among them. The chapter includes a detailed engagement with Peter Berger’s The Heretical Imperative and with texts from the Jewish tradition; it also draws on the author’s own experience of religious difference in Israel/Palestine and the interfaith work that grew from that encounter.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125281707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vocational Exploration as Transformative Pedagogy","authors":"T. Sadd","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190888671.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888671.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the shape and style of classroom teaching make a tremendous difference in the work of bringing vocational reflection into a multi-faith environment. The author draws on insights from a variety of fields, including psychology, philosophy, and educational theory, to provide specific guidance about the geography and atmosphere of the classroom and about the kinds of learning that need to take place there. Greater attention to the affective domain, coupled with the creation of classroom spaces that students see as respectful of their particularities and differences, can create a positive space for vocational reflection and discernment across a variety of lifestances. The second half of the chapter offers a number of specific pedagogical exercises to accomplish this work, along with a discussion of how student engagement in this project might be appropriately evaluated. A rubric for such evaluation is also included.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127871701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doubt as an Integral Part of Calling","authors":"Younus Y. Mirza","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter seeks to address the misleading assumption that vocational discernment should lead a person toward a clear and definitive goal. In practice, the process of finding one’s callings will necessarily be accompanied by doubt and uncertainty; in fact, the ambiguous and shadowy nature of vocation can be a positive feature. Many stories from various religious traditions remind us that even the most deeply committed and vocationally focused individuals have experienced doubt about their own callings and uncertainty about their lives. The chapter cites a range of scholarly literature on vocation to emphasize this point, then illustrates it through various elements in the Qur’an—including a detailed retelling the story of Joseph. Like Joseph, many people may retrospectively come to see how the various elements of their lives have been woven together, even if they faced a great deal of doubt and uncertainty along the way.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"10 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113935883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attentiveness and Humor","authors":"Homayra Ziad","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190888671.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on two important practices that are essential to the work of shaping the stories of a human life: the cultivation of attentiveness and of humor. College students who are committed to a particular religious tradition face not only the usual distractions and demands that all undergraduates face, but also cultural, social, and institutional pressures to “perform” their beliefs in a certain way. If students are to narrate their own lives in ways that make space for these complexities, they will need to engage in certain kinds of spiritual practices that will help them re-center themselves and tell their stories in their own voices. Drawing on the Sufi tradition, the author suggests that by cultivating the practice of attentiveness, and by maintaining a lightness of perspective and a dose of humor, students may be able to navigate their undergraduate years more successfully.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133639649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviving Sheila","authors":"K. J. Jones","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190888671.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888671.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter observes that many undergraduates find themselves drawn to more than one religious tradition, philosophical perspective, or lifestance. Indeed, the concept of “multiple religious belonging” may describe a very common circumstance, in which human beings find themselves drawn to, and sometimes overwhelmed by, an eclectic blend of beliefs and practices. Certain parallels may be drawn between these experiences and the broader experience of adolescent women, who find themselves pulled in many directions by the demands of contemporary culture. The chapter brings together a discussion of Mary Pipher’s book Reviving Ophelia with the example of “Sheila” in Habits of the Heart (ed. Robert Bellah et al.). Rather than assuming that experiences of multiple belonging result from confusion or indifference, the author counsels meeting these perspectives where they are, exploring how this quest for meaning might positively shape vocational reflection and discernment.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114470735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do You Love Us?","authors":"Jeffrey Carlson","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190888671.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888671.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the student academic experience as a whole; it explores the ways that a multi-faith environment can inspire and encourage students and teachers to enter into deeper conversations with one another. More specifically, it can help to focus attention on ultimate questions: What gives life meaning? What counts as a truly good life? How will my own understanding of these questions be reshaped by my encounter with people who hold different beliefs and engage in different practices? How do I understand my own identity in light of these questions? This chapter calls for educators to allow themselves to be shaped by the responsibility, and the joy, of empowering students to participate in an ongoing interreligious conversation about what makes for a good life. It includes an account of the author’s own experience of this kind of education, as well as the ways it is playing out in his current institutional location.","PeriodicalId":394501,"journal":{"name":"Hearing Vocation Differently","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127341672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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