Barker Ctr, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Please join us in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center for a panel and discussion with the following panelists:
Diana Eck, Professor, Harvard University; Director, The Pluralism Project
Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core
Jennifer Peace, Associate Professor of Interfaith Studies, Andover Newton Theological School
Rabbi Or Rose, Director, The Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership, Hebrew College
If you have questions please e-mail us at staff@pluralism.org. Read more about Models of Interfaith Leadership in an Age of Polarization
Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Friday, October 13 at 3 pm, Longfellow Hall
All are welcome to attend a celebration of Brendan Randall's life this Friday, October 13 at 3 pm in Eliot Lyman, Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. A reception will follow in the Reading Room of Gutman Library, just across the street.
Brendan's family has requested that those who... Read more about Celebration of Brendan Randall's Life
Barker Ctr, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Please join the Pluralism Project as it convenes religious, interfaith and civic leaders of Greater Boston for a roundtable discussion on what resources, skills, and help communities can offer one another in these increasingly tense times. Collaborators at the event include civic leaders, leaders of Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Sikh communities in the greater Boston area, and leaders of some of the interfaith and multicultural councils that have become something of a rapid-response team following incidents of threat, bias, or hate. The Pluralism Project will use insights gleaned from this... Read more about Roundtable Discussion: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston
This year marks the Pluralism Project’s 25th anniversary. We commemorated this anniversary with a conference, Pluralism Project @ 25: Diversity and Inclusion in the American Crucible, hosted by Harvard Professor and Project Director Diana Eck.
Click here for a PDF of the conference schedule. You will find panel descriptions and links below, but here is a... Read more about Pluralism Project at 25: Diversity and Inclusion in the American Crucible
The United States has been described as a nation of immigrants, but refugee and diaspora communities have come under close scrutiny in recent months. The World Faiths Development Dialogue, with support from the GHR Foundation, has undertaken a pilot project in partnership with Harvard University’s Pluralism Project in early 2015. Its goal was to explore the religious lives of refugees who settle in the US to better understand how religious communities, traditions, networks, or personal faith affect their adaptation and community-building in... Read more about Religion and Resettlement: The role of religion in diaspora communities in the US
On Tuesday, January 26th, the Pluralism Project hosted a screening and discussion of the film Waking in Oak Creek at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. Event partners include Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, Everett Gurdwara Sahib, Gurdwara Sikh Sangat Boston, Gurudwara Guru Nanak... Read more about Waking in Oak Creek Screening and Discussion (Religion Refocused Film Series)
The Pluralism Project co-hosted a reception for the Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group reception at the 2015 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. The reception was held on Saturday, November 21st from 7-9pm and took place in the Westin Savannah C.
The reception was hosted jointly by the Interfaith Youth Core, the Center for Jewish, Christian and Islamic Studies (JCIS) at Chicago Theological Seminary, the Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education (CIRCLE) at Andover Newton Theological School and Hebrew College, the Institute for Islamic,... Read more about Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Reception at the 2015 AAR Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA)
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, the Pluralism Project co-hosted, along with the Boston Globe's Globe Docsand the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, an advanced screening of He Named Me Malala, a documentary about the life and work of Pakistani teenager and children's education advocate Malala Yousafzai. A panel discussion followed, featuring
The Pluralism Project was invited to co-curate Issue 17 of the Journal of Interreligious Studies. Scholars and practitioners were invited to respond to theme: the "Problems and Promise of Pluralism." Assistant Director Whittney Barth served as guest editor and collaborator with JIRS staff. This and other issues of the Journal of Inter-Religious Studies are available online.
On Sunday, July 19th at 2:30pm, the Pluralism Project hosted a screening and discussion of the film The Refugees of Shangri La at the Black Box Theater in Lynn, MA. The screening was co-sponsored by the Lynn Museum/LynnArts and The Downtown Lynn Cultural District (DTLCD). Religion Refocused is made possible by... Read more about The Refugees of Shangri-La Screening and Discussion (Religion Refocused Film Series)