Surveys show that Americans are becoming less religious, and that this growing secularism has provoked a reaction among some on the right who want Christians to take control of the government and enforce moral codes.
. “When your grandfather is going through a triple-bypass surgery at a hospital started by Jesuits, with a physician team that is Muslim and Jewish, and the anesthesiologist is Hindu, and the person sanitizing the room is a Jehovah’s Witness, and the person who runs the hospital is a secular humanist who grew up Buddhist, that's interfaith work.”
for producing agreement among competing views that was developed in Europe to stem centuries of bloodshed over religious questions.Patel’s book is a call for Americans to stop complaining and get to work. It is a hands-on tour of his own evolution from a snarky and cynical activist to the leader of aPatel wrote in the New York Times in May about how he built an identity in college around being a “victim of racism.
It is at times a manual for building community organizations. But there is also a focus on the U.S. higher education system, to which Patel’s organization has dedicated much of its attention. A former Rhodes scholar, Patel writes in his book that universities should be “civic spaces that specialize in teaching people how to engage in … conflicts through language and politics, rather than violence.
“Educators and the adults on campus have a role to play in telling students that they're responsible for things, not just for breaking things, and not just for telling other people what they're doing wrong,” he said. “We've had a five- or six-year period in American social, political and cultural life which is off the rails. And so I think that there needs to be extra emphasis on not just initiating people into anger, but in shaping them into problem solvers.
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