Interfaith Leadership: In the Best Possible Light
We are to fear and love God, so that we do not tell lies about our neighbors, betray or slander them, or destroy their reputations. Instead we are to come to their defense, speak well of them, and interpret everything they do in the best possible light. Martin Luther, The Small Catechism, 1529 Martin Luther’s [...]
Eastern and Western Christianities Share Sacred Space and Questions About the Future
My quest for an Eastern Catholic community in Greater Boston similar to the one I had been raised in as a child of Malayalee immigrants from Kerala, India, was successful just in time for Holy Week last year. However, as we prepared for the Palm Sunday liturgy in the basement of St. Jeremiah’s in Framingham, [...]
A Muslim in the Choir
With the transitional voice of my adolescence, the following lyrics vibrated outward from deep in my gut: I wonder if the light from the lighthouse would shine… The rest of the robe-clad singers joined my section, and resounded: …would shine on me?
From CD-ROM to Blogosphere: Religious Pluralism Comes Home
In February of 1998, I returned to the wintry campus of St. Olaf College, a small Christian liberal arts school in rural Minnesota, after a five-month global study trip. It was a bewildering reverse culture shock back into my Norwegian Lutheran heritage; the familiar had changed. I longed to have the world back at my [...]
Pluralism Project
The Pluralism Project, founded and directed by Dr. Diana L. Eck, is a twenty-year research project on the changing religious landscape of the United States. Through an expanding network of affiliates and student researchers, we document the contours of our multi-religious society, explore new forms of interfaith engagement, study the impact of religious diversity in civic life, and contextualize these findings within a global framework.
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Contributing Scholars
Rose AslanRose Aslan is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Religious Studies, where she specializes in Islamic Studies. She received her MA in Arab and Islamic Civilizations from the American University in Cairo and her BA in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia.
Jenn LindsayJenn Lindsay is a PhD student in Boston University's Division of Religious and Theological Studies, where she studies how religion affects personal relationships, particularly interreligious relationships. She earned her Masters Degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where her program focus was Interfaith Relations and she served as co-chair of the Interfaith Caucus and the student senate Minister of Fun. She hails from San Diego and worked for a decade in New York City as an independent musician and filmmaker.
