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30 - Next-Generation Religion and Ethics

from Part IV - Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2019

By
Varun Soni
Edited by
Ali E. Abbas
Ali E. Abbas
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Over the last decade, I have served as the Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California (USC), where I oversee more than ninety student religious groups and more than fifty campus chaplains on campus; collectively representing all the world’s great religious traditions and many humanist, spiritual, and denominational perspectives as well. I also have the great privilege to do this work on a campus with more international students than almost any other university in the United States, in the heart of Los Angeles, the most religiously diverse city in human history (Loskota, 2015). As a result, the opportunities to think deeply about geo-religious diversity, interfaith engagement, and global ethics are unparalleled at USC (Mayhew, Rockenbach, & Bowman, 2016).

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Next-Generation Ethics
Engineering a Better Society
 , pp. 459 - 466
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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