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Resource Person: Deanna Zantingh, Shahina Siddiqui, Pundit Venkat,

Contact Info: Deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca (204-218-5812) Adrian@sandysaulteaux.ca

Elder: Bernice Saulteaux

Course Description:

 This course engages students to reflect on their role as interfaith leaders. Through experiential learning and interaction with faith leaders from diverse traditions, students will increase their religious literacy by learning about religious traditions as internally and externally diverse.  Student will hear about what motivates leaders within these traditions to work for social justice or a common good, and will reflect on their own religious motivations for these goals. Lastly, the course examines the public role of religion and the role of religious leaders today within diverse and complex societies; promoting the motivation to work together as faith leaders to work toward justice, healing, and peace.

Learning Objectives:

1. Inspire a vision of interfaith leadership and its important role within student’s current contexts of complex diverse societies.
2. Cultivate a knowledge base of interfaith leadership including an appreciative knowledge of traditions other than one’s own.
3. Nurture skillsets needed to engage in interfaith leadership and incorporate them into one’s own life, practice, and vision.
4. Increase one’s religious literacy, including awareness of diversity within religious traditions as well as between religious traditions.
5. Engage intangible learning opportunities that provide possibilities of establishing real relationships between students and SSSC and other faith traditions.  relationship
6. Explore motivations for social justice and commitment to a common good within diverse traditions, and examine how such relationships could be a foundation to work together toward justice for Indigenous peoples in Canada and the world.