UniYatra BlogChallenges of managing a religiously sensitive environment
Anant Ramachan writes in a Star Tribune Op-Ed Piece about how we can manage and implement environments that are sensitive to people of a variety of religious backgrounds.
In his article, he responds to criticism of St. Paul Region's Hospital for removing a Christian cross from the hospital's chapel. He succinctly summarizes Region's Hospital's challenge by writing: "The motivation is not necessarily concern to avoid offense, but to offer a space that could be meaningfully utilized by people of different religious commitments."
He suggests four solutions, ones that we can easily generalize to all sorts of situations: 1. cease offering any sort of religious accomodation; 2. offer all sorts of religious accomodation; 3. all people of all religions to make desired accomodations; and 4. accomodate needs without including items or symbolism that may make a person from another religious background uncomfortable.
Read through his article and arguments. What do you think? Please post your followup comments.
In his article, he responds to criticism of St. Paul Region's Hospital for removing a Christian cross from the hospital's chapel. He succinctly summarizes Region's Hospital's challenge by writing: "The motivation is not necessarily concern to avoid offense, but to offer a space that could be meaningfully utilized by people of different religious commitments."He suggests four solutions, ones that we can easily generalize to all sorts of situations: 1. cease offering any sort of religious accomodation; 2. offer all sorts of religious accomodation; 3. all people of all religions to make desired accomodations; and 4. accomodate needs without including items or symbolism that may make a person from another religious background uncomfortable.
Read through his article and arguments. What do you think? Please post your followup comments.
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