Sacred Visions and the Social Good was a collaborative effort of Dominican University and the Graduate Theological Union. Scholars, community practitioners and their organizations engaged in community research, program development, and public outreach on the ways that faith traditions and ethical discourses contribute to wider visions and practices of the social good.
In particular, the program was interested in learning how sacred traditions mobilize their members into practices of public engagement, how deeper ecumenical and interfaith cooperation can generate shared visions and practices, and how multiple faith visions contribute to a broad spiritual and ethical framework for a just, sustainable, and pluralistic democracy.
The Thee Sub-Projects:
- BOCA (Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action): a community-based project that explores faith-based motivations in community organizing or service,
- The Sufi-Buddhist Project: an interfaith project that explores how two faith communities collaborate around identified public issues, and
- Native Voices, the Earth, and Public Education: a faith based project of how a particular religious community sought to impact public issues in their community.
Read the final report here.
