What are the greatest contributions of religious communication and RCA to communities inside/outside the academy? Where does and where can RCA make a difference?

• In Event: The Religious Communication Association Five Years Out Panel: Contributions to Scholarship and Human Community

Abstract

Life in human community invites encounters with similarity and difference in faith traditions and world views. How do we manage the tensions among incommensurable “goods” across religious traditions or between secular and religious traditions in our discourse? These continuing questions enter the public square on a regular basis, prompting free and responsible speech about issues that matter to the human community. In an increasingly connected world, these communicative issues reach beyond the academy to the marketplace, public square, and larger global community, echoing the stability and change of life together.

Author

• Paul Soukup, Santa Clara University