Facilitating intercultural communicative competence through student-conducted ethnographic research in a minority religious community in Japan

Against the backdrop of religious hostilities worldwide, there is a pressing need to increase intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the domain of religion. While there is a growing body of scholar ship concerning interreligious dialogue, particularly in the field of peacebuilding, less is known about the contribution that universities can make towards facilitating religious understanding through inter cultural education. Student-conducted ethnography, which has been shown to promote th