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Dear Friends,
As we give thanks in this Thanksgiving season, I am deeply thankful for the
many immigrants who have brought their faith, their hopes, and their
energies to the United States. That includes all my Swedish grandparents
and the Gujarati, Chinese, Mexican, and Somali parents and grandparents of
my students here at Harvard.
This is a critical moment in American life. We all hear the voices of those
who call for a retreat from America's public and political commitment to
pluralism. But at a time when many Americans are uncertain about the
strength of our identity as a multi religious nation, the Pluralism Project
<http://pluralism.org/> looks with confidence to the vision, the reality
and the future of the American experiment. It is a vision that is based in
the Constitutional promise of religious freedom, a blueprint for the very
diversity that is ours today.
For more than two decades, the Pluralism Project has studied the changing
religious landscape of our nation. As students, researchers, and citizens,
we ask three critical questions: Who are "we" in this new religious
America? How are all of our traditions changing as we engage with one
another in the give and take, the dialogue, of difference? And how is
America changing as we reap the benefits of that engagement in our civic
life? These are critical questions for our future together. Diversity is
just a fact. Pluralism is the engagement of our differences in the common
project of America.
We invite you to join us in this project with a Giving Tuesday gift
<http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/> to The Pluralism Project. .
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Sincerely,
Dr. Diana L. Eck
Director, The Pluralism Project
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-2481
www.pluralism.org
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