Proposal Description We have received a renewal of our Interfaculty Collaboration grant for the coming academic year. We have followed through with our focus on "Immigration, Religious Pluralism, and American Civil Society" and are continuing to develop and expand our collaborations in this area of "Religious Pluralism and American Civil Society." Over the past few years, funds from the Harvard Provosts' Grant for Interfaculty Collaborations have enabled us to convene a series of lunch discussions with faculty across the university who are interested in Immigration,... Read more about Religious Pluralism and Civil Society: An Interfaculty Working Group at Harvard University Fall 2003

On November 21-22, 2003, in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, the Pluralism Project hosted a gathering of scholars and teachers interested in the many issues of religion and immigration. The program was arranged in such a way as to facilitate discussion under several headings on the changing religious landscape of the U.S. In addition to invited guests, other AAR attendees were welcome to join the conversation which took place in the Hilton Atlanta & Towers, Rockdale/Forsythe Room. Schedule of Discussions 1:... Read more about Religious Pluralism in North America: The Southern United States

On October 15, 2003, the Pluralism Project and the Center for the Study of World Religions  co-sponsored "Religious Pluralism in America: Pluralism Project Student Fall Research Conference." Schedule 4:00 PM Opening remarks by Dr. Diana Eck 4:15–5:15 PM Mapping a New Religious Landscape

• The Religious Diversity of the Northern Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming - Scott Buquor
• Mapping Religious Diversity in Idaho - Chelsea Hanson
• Santeria in...

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Proposal Description We have received a renewal of our Interfaculty Collaboration grant for the coming academic year. We have followed through with our focus on "Immigration, Religious Pluralism, and American Civil Society" and are continuing to develop and expand our collaborations in this area of "Religious Pluralism and American Civil Society." Over the past few years, funds from the Harvard Provosts' Grant for Interfaculty Collaborations have enabled us to convene a series of lunch discussions with faculty across the university who are interested in Immigration,... Read more about Religious Pluralism and Civil Society: An Interfaculty Working Group at Harvard University Spring 2004

"Women, Religion and Social Change II" is an international, interreligious conference was held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA from April 30 - May 4, 2003. This meeting reunited a group of women who came together in 1983 for a groundbreaking interreligious conference on "Women, Religion and Social Change." This group, and their concerns, included the global and the local: participants came from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America, and Europe. The meeting drew together a diverse group of scholars and grass-roots activists for a week of...

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On November 22-23, 2002, in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada, the Pluralism Project hosted a gathering of  scholars and teachers interested in the many issues of religion and immigration. The program was arranged in such a way as to facilitate discussion under several headings on the changing religious landscape of the U.S. and Canada. In addition to invited guests, other AAR attendees were welcomed.

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On October 10, 2009, the Pluralism Project co-sponsored a screening of New Muslim Cool at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University.  Directed by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, this film tells the true life story of Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican American hip hop artist who converted to Islam at age 21. Before the screening, the Sackler Museum offered extended hours for the special exhibit, Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis. After the film, Hamza Pérez answered questions from the nearly 300 students, faculty, staff,... Read more about New Muslim Cool Screening, Q and A with Hamsa Pérez

On October 16, 2002, Pluralism Project staff, researchers, and friends gathered at the Barker Center for the 2002 student research conference, featuring presentations by Pluralism Project summer research interns. Schedule 4:00 p.m. Opening remarks by Dr. Diana Eck 4:10–5:10 p.m. Muslim Communities in America

• St. Louis and Kansas City Muslim Communities - Milia Islam
• Muslim Communities in Rhode Island - Omar Haque
• The Politics of Women's Worship: Space, Activism, and Interfaith Horizons in American Islam - Iza Hussin

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In the past thirty years, the religious landscape of the United States has changed significantly, in part because of the 1965 immigration act and the new population of immigrants who have come to the U.S. from all over the world. Today there are Islamic centers and mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples and meditation centers, and Sikh gurdwaras in virtually every major American city. And today the encounter between people of different religious and cultural traditions takes place not only in the international arena, but in our own cities and neighborhoods, schools and city councils. School... Read more about NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers: “World Religions in America”

In 2001, the Pluralism Project embarked on a new initiative to convene and cultivate Women’s Networks in Multireligious America. The first consultations brought together religious advocacy organizations, recognizing that women rarely held formal leadership positions, but played critical roles within the community. The first in a series of multi-religious consultations with women leaders, activists, and academics was held in April 2001 at Harvard University. "Women's Networks in Multireligious America: After September 11," held in November 2001, was second consultation, one that had... Read more about Women’s Networks in Multireligious America: After September 11

In 1999, the Pluralism Project hosted two groundbreaking consultations on multireligious America, where for the first time, activists and representatives of diverse advocacy groups shared a common table. The second of these two meetings was a“Symposium on Civil Society and Multireligious America," which took a broad look at the issues of civil society. This event included a panel on public and private schools, and involved representatives from the White House, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board along with Pluralism Project affiliates and advisors. [flickr_set id=72157622509133350]

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This interfaculty working group gathered together colleagues from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, the Divinity School, the Medical School, the Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Graduate School of Education, all of whom are interested in the changing religious, cultural, and ethnic landscape of the United States in the light of America's new immigration in the post-1965 period. Our hope for this working group would be to engage people who are interested in thinking together about the questions raised by the new immigration --historians, sociologists... Read more about Interfaculty Working Group, 2000–2001

Barker Center

Harvard University

October 23, 2001, at the Barker Center, Harvard University

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4:00–5:00 p.m.	Opening remarks by Dr. Diana Eck Mapping the Religious Diversity of Arkansas— Little Rock and Fayetteville Eric Barbee The Hmong in Merced, California Maribel Valencia Castillo Mapping Religious Diversity in Utah Kate Holbrook
5:00–5:30 p.m.	Light Supper
5:30–6:45 p.m.	Mapping...

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In February 1999, the Pluralism Project was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to enable us to host a consultation on religious discrimination and accommodation. This consultation, held May 17 at Harvard University, brought together representatives from advocacy groups of America’s diverse religious traditions. Dr. Diana L. Eck, Project Director and Professor of Comparative Religions, moderated the lively conversation. Topics included religious needs and issues of discrimination in the “public square,” including the workplace, hospitals, and schools.

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In 2001, the Pluralism Project embarked on a new initiative to convene and cultivate Women’s Networks in Multireligious America. The first consultations of religious advocacy organizations, we recognized that women rarely held formal leadership positions, but played critical roles within the community. The common concerns of religious women represented important opportunities for collaboration, yet their voices were rarely heard within the public conversation, or the traditional structures of interfaith dialogue. We hosted the first in a series of multi-religious consultations...

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