An Epistemology for Listening Across Religious, Cultural, and Political Divides

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dc.contributor.authorVishanoff, David
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T00:48:34Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T00:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-30
dc.description.abstractThe rhetoric of cultural populism exploits and exacerbates the natural tendency for human communities to define their own identities by contrasting themselves with imagined Others. This heightens the already formidable epistemic challenge of understanding such Others. This chapter proposes an epistemology of intergroup understanding that is relational, recursive, eschatological, and sacrificial. It argues that coming to understand Others across group boundaries requires an ongoing process of listening and a willingness to sacrifice aspects of one’s own identity that prove to be grounded in self-serving misconstruals of the Other. Such listening requires open-mindedness, empathy, epistemic justice, epistemic charity, intellectual humility, and epistemic selflessness, which are therefore crucial to the functioning of a pluralistic society, especially one that is polarized along religious, cultural, or political lines.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis is the author’s original preprint manuscript. Final published version in Engaging Populism: Democracy and the Intellectual Virtues, ed. Gregory R. Peterson, Michael C. Berhow, and George Tsakiridis, 185–214 (Palgrave, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05785-4_10en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationDavid R. Vishanoff. “An Epistemology for Listening Across Religious, Cultural, and Political Divides.” In Engaging Populism: Democracy and the Intellectual Virtues, ed. Gregory R. Peterson, Michael C. Berhow, and George Tsakiridis, 185–214. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05785-4_10en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/336524
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectIntellectual virtuesen_US
dc.subjectPopulismen_US
dc.subjectListeningen_US
dc.subjectInterreligious relationsen_US
dc.subjectReligious studies methoden_US
dc.subjectEpistemologyen_US
dc.titleAn Epistemology for Listening Across Religious, Cultural, and Political Dividesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
ou.groupDodge Family College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Religious Studiesen_US

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