Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and cooperation.
Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers o...
Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and cooperation. Building the Interfaith Youth Movement is the first book to describe this important phenomenon. Contributions include concrete descriptions of various interfaith youth projects across the country--from an arts-program in the South Bronx to a research program at Harvard University to a national organization called the Interfaith...
Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers o...
"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11. . . . I've heard it said that the second generation never asks the first about its story, but nearly all the essays in this book include long, intimate portrayals of Muslim family life, often going back generations. These young Muslims are constantly negotiating the differences between families for whom faith and culture were...
"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin...
"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11. . . . I've heard it said that the second generation never asks the first about its story, but nearly all the essays in this book include long, intimate portrayals of Muslim family life, often going back generations. These young Muslims are constantly negotiating the differences between families for whom faith and culture were...
"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin...
Colleges and universities silo diversity and inclusion by creating specific courses to address them, or programs to welcome and support people with a range of identities, whereas in reality students, faculty and staff do not encounter diversity in the fractured ways that match the organizational structures of our institutions. We all simultaneously embody a variety of identities with different saliency in different circumstances and times.
This book offers models for institutions to move intentionally toward intersections - of study abroad and multiculturalism, of race and gender...
Colleges and universities silo diversity and inclusion by creating specific courses to address them, or programs to welcome and support people with a ...
Colleges and universities silo diversity and inclusion by creating specific courses to address them, or programs to welcome and support people with a range of identities, whereas in reality students, faculty and staff do not encounter diversity in the fractured ways that match the organizational structures of our institutions. We all simultaneously embody a variety of identities with different saliency in different circumstances and times.
This book offers models for institutions to move intentionally toward intersections - of study abroad and multiculturalism, of race and gender...
Colleges and universities silo diversity and inclusion by creating specific courses to address them, or programs to welcome and support people with a ...
A guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines In this book, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clear, detailed, and practical guide to interfaith leadership, illustrated with compelling examples. Patel explains what interfaith leadership is and explores the core competencies and skills of interfaith leadership, before turning to the issues interfaith leaders face and how they can prepare to solve them. Interfaith leaders seek points of connection and commonality--in their...
A guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines In t...
An inspiring collection of readings that will raise deep questions about service and its roots in faith.
"There is a deep yearning among the vast majority of people of all religious and philosophical traditions to make real their most enduring shared principles to care for creation, to serve others with compassion, and to protect and enhance the gift of life . We believe that reflecting on these principles strengthens our capacity to embody them." from the Introduction
Explore the connections between faith, service, and social justice through the prose, verse, and sacred texts of the...
An inspiring collection of readings that will raise deep questions about service and its roots in faith.
An inspiring collection of readings that will raise deep questions about service and its roots in faith.
"There is a deep yearning among the vast majority of people of all religious and philosophical traditions to make real their most enduring shared principles to care for creation, to serve others with compassion, and to protect and enhance the gift of life . We believe that reflecting on these principles strengthens our capacity to embody them." from the Introduction
Explore the connections between faith, service, and social justice through the prose, verse, and sacred texts of the...
An inspiring collection of readings that will raise deep questions about service and its roots in faith.
