Table of Contents

Foreword
Richard H. Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges

Preface
Vocations of the Contributors

Introduction
Hearing and Being Heard: Rethinking Vocation in the Multi-Faith Academy
David S. Cunningham

Part One: Reframing Vocation: Creating Spaces for New Ways of Hearing
Chapter 1
The Change a Difference Makes: Formation of Self in the Encounter with Diversity
Rachel S. Mikva

Chapter 2
Reviving Sheila: Listening to the Call of Multiple Religious Belonging
Katherine (Trina) Janiec Jones

Chapter 3
The Call of Death and the Depth of Our Callings: The Quality of Vocational Discernment
Rahuldeep Gill

Part Two: Releasing Expectations: Overcoming Misleading Assumptions about Vocation
Chapter 4
Doubt as an Integral Part of Calling: The Qur'anic Story of Joseph
Younus Y. Mirza

Chapter 5
Gracious Reception: The Christian Case for Hearing Vocation Differently
David S. Cunningham

Chapter 6
Renunciation of Vocation and Renunciation within Vocation: Contributions from the Bhagavadgita
Anantanand Rambachan

Part Three: Restor(y)ing our Lives: Narrative as a Vocational Catalyst
Chapter 7
Called by Our Conflicting Allegiances: Vocation as an Interfaith Endeavor / Interfaith Cooperation as a Vocation
Noah J. Silverman

Chapter 8
The Story of Me: A Myth-understanding of Vocation
Matthew R. Sayers

Chapter 9
Attentiveness and Humor: Vocation as Awakening to Self
Homayra Ziad

Part Four: Re-imagining our Campuses: The Practice(s) of Hearing Vocation Differently
Chapter 10
Response-ability in Practice: Discerning Vocation through Campus Relationships
Florence D. Amamoto

Chapter11
The Vocation of Church-Related Colleges in a Multi-Faith World: Educating for Religious Pluralism
Jacqueline A. Bussie

Chapter 12
Vocational Exploration as Transformative Pedagogy: Retrieving the Affective, Educating for Difference
Tracy Wenger Sadd

Chapter 13
Do You Love Us? Higher Education as an Interfaith Conversation about the Good Life
Jeffrey Carlson

Epilogue
Hearing in a New Key: Vocation beyond the Limits of Reason Alone
David S. Cunningham

Index of Names
Index of Subjects

About the Author

David S. Cunningham is Director of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), Council of Independent Colleges. As Director of the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project, he developed this volume as well as two previous books on vocation and higher education. He is Professor of Religion at Hope College, where he also served as Director of the CrossRoads Project. He is the author of five books and editor of four collections on various
topics in religion, ethics, and higher education.

Reviews

"This volume is an excellent example of what it wants to achieve...From my own neoCalvinist Reformed background, I can only underline its importance." -- Hans (J.H.F.) Schaeffer, Theological University Kampen, Journal of Reformed Theology
"Young people of all backgrounds naturally seek a deeper purpose. Our increasingly diverse communities badly need a new generation inspired by a higher calling. One of the great tasks of colleges is to nurture vocation in the young so that they may find their fulfillment in serving the broader society. This book is a wonderful companion for that journey." --Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core and author of Interfaith Leadership: A
Primer
"In changing times, we hunger for a more spacious language. Vocation is a big word breaking out of earlier confines to hold some of the most significant features of a human life. Hearing Vocation Differently offers a contemplative conversation with worthy companions, exploring today's boundary-crossing quests for meaning and purpose. If you are a mentor open to greater wisdom, this book will meet you on the edge of your own
vocation."--Sharon Daloz Parks, author of Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith
"This book has been long overdue; but it was well worth the wait! The twelve authors were well chosen and what they wrote was on point. How much richer life will be on this planet with so many more living out their vocations faithfully."--John Haughey, S.J., author of A Biography of the Spirit