On Wednesday, April 15th, Prof. Diana Eck, Director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, delivered the 10th annual Rev. Robert W. Bullock Memorial Lecture at Merrimack College. Her talk was entitled “Religionlines and Colorlines: Religion and Race in Multireligious America" and is available online.
On Sunday, March 22nd, the Pluralism Project hosted a screening and panel discussion of the film Of Many at the Cambridge Public Library.
About the film Of Many: Set against the dramatic backdrop of violence in the Middle East and the tension between Jewish and Muslim students on college campuses, Of Many focuses on... Read more about Of Many Screening and Discussion (Religion Refocused Series)
This after school program at Cristo Rey Boston High School featured two short films, American Made (2003) and Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity (2005), and a discussion about Sikhism in America and the experiences of visible religious minorities post-9/11. This event was open to students at Cristo... Read more about Defining the American Dream After 9/11 (Religion Refocused Film Series)
Pluralism Project Director Diana Eck, Senior Research Associate Brendan Randall, and Assistant Director Whittney Barth co-led a two-hour workshop on the case method and its application to religious studies and interfaith/interreligious relations. The workshop included a discussion of "A Call to Prayer," a case study written by Research Director Elinor Pierce and set in Hamtramck, Michigan. The discussion was facilitated by Diana Eck. Brendan Randall gave an introduction to writing case studies and their pedagogical significance; Whittney Barth spoke about the use of case studies in diverse... Read more about Case Study Workshop at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Pluralism Project Research Associate Cody Musselman attended the 2014 North American Interfaith Network Connect conference in Detroit, MI. Cody was the recipient of a NAIN young adult scholarship. Read Cody's report from NAIN Connect 2014.
Assistant Director Whittney Barth led a case study discussion for schoolteachers during the “Religious Worlds of New York,” a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar co-sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York and Union Theological Seminary. The group discussed “Adding Eid,” a case whose protagonist, a school superintendent, must determine his options when considering whether to add Eid to the public school calendar.