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Apply to attend Pluralism Project conference

by The Pluralism Project

Join us in Jan. 2019 for a convening on the case method View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/5fb5a9710372/apply-to-attend-pluralism-project-conferenc…) http://pluralism.org/a-convening-on-the-case-method-building-a-cohort-build… ** Now accepting applications! ------------------------------------------------------------ ** A Convening on the Case Method: Building a Cohort, Building Capacity in the Field ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear friends, We are excited to announce that the Pluralism Project recently received funding from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Education (https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/) to host a small conference where we will explore teaching with the case method. The conference will take place on Harvard’s campus on January 12th and 13th, 2019. Thanks to the generosity of the Wabash Center, we will be able to cover travel and accommodations for out-of-town attendees. This will be a very small conference, and participation will be determined through an application process. We welcome religious studies, theology, and interfaith studies educators to apply for this wonderful opportunity to learn from subject matter experts, make connections with fellow educators, and help us develop best practices for teaching with case studies. For more information on the goals of the conference and to apply, please visit this page (http://pluralism.org/a-convening-on-the-case-method-building-a-cohort-build…) . The deadline to apply is 11:59 pm on Saturday, September 15. Looking forward to hearing from many of you, Diana L. Eck Director, The Pluralism Project Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society ============================================================ ** (http://www.twitter.com/pluralismproj) ** (http://www.facebook.com/pluralismproj/) ** (http://www.pluralism.org) Copyright © 2018 The Pluralism Project at Harvard University Our mailing address is: 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can ** update your preferences (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/profile?u=92daaff7d4d2956f76158110b&…) or ** unsubscribe from this list (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=92daaff7d4d2956f761581…) . This email was sent to pluralism-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu (mailto:pluralism-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu) why did I get this? (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/about?u=92daaff7d4d2956f76158110b&id…) unsubscribe from this list (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=92daaff7d4d2956f761581…) update subscription preferences (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/profile?u=92daaff7d4d2956f76158110b&…) The Pluralism Project at Harvard University . 2 Arrow St # 4 . Cambridge, MA 02138-5102 . USA Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…

5 years, 8 months

Partner with the Pluralism Project

by The Pluralism Project

Learn about our upcoming projects and how your help can make an impact. View this email in your browser (http://mailchi.mp/9fb570db8159/partner-with-the-pluralism-project?e=99c837d…) http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/ ** What keeps you up at night? ------------------------------------------------------------ This was one of the questions posed at our dinner in Cambridge last week with local religious and interfaith leaders, advocates, educators, and researchers. Their responses had a common thread: with hate and intolerance against religious minority communities on the rise, our pluralistic American values are now under threat. How do we stand as allies? How do we find hope and resilience? And How do we ensure that our efforts are relevant and responsive in these challenging times? At our events, in our research, and in case study classrooms, open-ended questions like these are intended not merely to facilitate conversation, but to generate new strategies. ** The Pluralism Project’s primary strategy is partnership. ------------------------------------------------------------ Our partners are the grassroots leaders who participate in conversations such as the one we hosted last week; they are the teachers who regularly use our case studies and educational resources; they are the students and advisors who contribute their efforts and expertise. Together, all of these partners help us to refine and expand our work, and to create new initiatives for 2018. In the year ahead, we will host a public leadership workshop for emerging interfaith and religious leaders, taught by Marshall Ganz; launch a collaborative effort to develop workplace cases with a top five management consulting firm; and develop new teaching notes to expand the impact and reach of our case materials. ** Yet we need your help. ------------------------------------------------------------ The Pluralism Project does not receive general operating support from Harvard University; private donations help us to ensure that, beyond our project-based efforts, we can continue to adapt our work to these changing and challenging times. Please consider a donation to the Pluralism Project to help in this crucial work. You can donate online (http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/) or by mail. Thank you for your contribution, and for your ongoing partnership with the Pluralism Project. With gratitude, Diana L. Eck Director, The Pluralism Project Acting Chair, Committee on the Study of Religion Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society Harvard University Harvard's recently appointed Imam Khalil Abdur-Rashid offers opening remarks to attendees at the Pluralism Project Leadership Dinner Reverend Soren M. Hessler of the Miller Center for Interreligous Learning & Leadership speaks at the Pluralism Project Leadership Dinner Pluralism Project Director Diana Eck leads a discussion with Sarbpreet Singh and J. Mehr Kaur, playwrights, after a performance of their play "Kultar's Mime" ============================================================ ** (http://www.twitter.com/pluralismproj) ** (http://www.facebook.com/pluralismproj/) ** (http://www.pluralism.org) Copyright © 2017 The Pluralism Project at Harvard University Our mailing address is: 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 This email was sent to pluralism-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu (mailto:pluralism-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu) why did I get this? (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/about?u=92daaff7d4d2956f76158110b&id…) unsubscribe from this list (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=92daaff7d4d2956f761581…) update subscription preferences (https://pluralism.us17.list-manage.com/profile?u=92daaff7d4d2956f76158110b&…) The Pluralism Project at Harvard University . 2 Arrow Street . 4th Floor . Cambridge, Ma 02138 . USA Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…

6 years, 5 months

Tragic news about Brendan Randall, Senior Researcher

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear Pluralism Project community, The Pluralism Project is devastated to learn of the death of Brendan Randall, a long-time affiliate and Senior Researcher of the Pluralism Project. He had a tragic accident while getting off a train in Philadelphia on Thursday, July 6 and passed away on Sunday, July 9. We send our deepest condolences to his wife, Cathleen Randall, and his family. He was an energetic, brilliant, and accomplished scholar and teacher. He was also a wonderful colleague and cherished friend—truly kind, generous, thoughtful, and supportive. Brendan’s loss is immense for the many communities of people with whom he worked—here at Harvard and more recently at the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. Brendan had an impressive array of Harvard degrees (A.B. 1988, M.Ed. 2007, M.T.S. 2009, Ed.D. anticipated 2018) in addition to a law degree from the University of Minnesota (1991). He had wide religious knowledge and sensitivities, as well as significant experience in education from his years at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. He kept his legal eye sharp as ever as he plunged into the great civic controversies of our own critical era in the emergence of multi-faith America. We remember how he often humorously introduced himself as a “recovering lawyer” when he first came to Harvard Divinity School. At the Pluralism Project, Brendan worked closely with our case-study initiative in developing and teaching the cases that involve students in the on-the-ground dilemmas of our time. At the heart of his work was his concern with civic education for pluralism and how schools can prepare students to live in a religiously diverse democratic society. He was an invaluable, inventive, and beloved teaching colleague in my case-studies course in General Education at Harvard College, said by many of his students to be “the best teaching fellow I have had at Harvard.” Brendan was a person we trusted with the vision and future of the Project, even as he brought our work into the exciting network of the Interfaith Youth Core as their Director of Campus Engagement. Brendan was a deeply humane thinker and teacher. Meira Levinson, his dissertation advisor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, sees his nearly-complete thesis as an outstanding synthesis of law, religion, political theory, and education. "Religious Belief, Free Expression, and ‘Lightning Rod’ Issues: Agonistic Pluralism and Civic Education in a Religiously Diverse Democracy" addresses both theoretical and practical challenges in creating respectful school environments in a pluralist society. Brendan was especially concerned with strengthening schools’ capacities to protect gender-nonconforming students and others who challenged heteronormative discourse and behavior, while also protecting other students' free religious expression. Brendan had the rare quality of taking all sides in the debate seriously, on their own terms, while also providing profound moral and legal guidance for schools, civic educators, and all who care about promoting mutual respect and inclusion in these polarized times. Memorial services for Brendan are being planned for Minnesota in August and Cambridge, MA in October. Please join the listserv created here <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_forms_X89sxkMeb…> to be kept apprised of the plans for the Cambridge service and to connect with one another about how we can best remember Brendan and honor his work. Sincerely, Diana Diana Eck, Director of The Pluralism Project <http://pluralism.org/> Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Faculty Dean of Lowell House Harvard University ------- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org

6 years, 10 months

REMINDER: Religion and Conflict Transformation workshop tomorrow (Tuesday 3/28)

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear friends, We hope you will be able to join us for a meaningful day of workshops tomorrow (Tuesday) on how to seek out "higher ground." Speakers and facilitators include the Pluralism Project's own Research Director, Elinor Pierce, as well as Rev. Mariama White Hammond, Bob Stains, Salma Kazmi, Rabbi Or Rose, and many other illustrious leaders! Register at the link below and check out the attached flier. *Seeking Higher Ground: Religion and Conflict Transformation**Tuesday, March 28, * *9 am-4 pm, Hebrew College* *(co-sponsored event- check out fliers for other sponsors)**This one day workshop will explore the vision of our religious communities as contexts for the discovery of “higher ground.” The presentations will be interactive and will offer specific skills and practices from the world of conflict transformation to assist professional and lay leaders in realizing this vision. * *REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2lVQDDO&d=CwMFAg…>PLURALISM PROJECT EVENTS COMING UP...* *Performance and Discussion of “Kultar’s Mime”**Sunday, April 9, * *4-6 pm, Tsai Auditorium, Harvard University**“Kultar's Mime” is a play that blends painting, poetry, theater and music to tell the stories of Sikh children who survived the 1984 Delhi massacre that was organized in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. A collective of young Jewish artists decides to commemorate a 1903 Pogrom that targeted Jews in the Russian town of Kishinev. During their journey, they learn about the 1984 massacre of the Sikhs in Delhi and in a powerful moment of embracing the pain of the 'other', they shift focus and decide to tell a story that the world has largely ignored. * *REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_k…>YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED...* *Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium event: "Beyond Militarization: The Role of Religious Communities in the Struggle for Justice and Peace"**Thursday, April 6, 6-8:30 pm* *, Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave.**At a time when the White House proposes to increase military spending by $54 billion while slashing funds for social programs at home and humanitarian aid abroad, we recall the warning of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that a nation spending more money on the military than on social uplift "is approaching spiritual death." What role can religious communities play today in resisting war and militarism and working for social and economic justice? Speaker David Cortright (University of Notre Dame) and respondent J. Bryan Hehir (Harvard Kennedy School and Catholic Archdiocese of Boston) REGISTER HERE <https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bEjlM396uGy9XqB>* Best wishes, Pluralism Project staff -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>!

7 years, 1 month

Save the date for 2 events!

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear friends, We want to invite you to mark your calendars for two upcoming events in our new initiative, “Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston," which we kicked off with our first event <https://www.facebook.com/pg/pluralismproj/photos/?tab=album&album_id=135440…> this week. (You can read more about the initiative here <http://pluralism.org/communities-against-hate-response-and-resilience-in-mu…>!) Fliers for both events are attached. We hope you will be able to join us! As always, please let us know if you have any questions. *Seeking Higher Ground: Religion and Conflict Transformation**Tuesday, March 28, * *9 am-4 pm, Hebrew College* *(co-sponsored event- check out fliers for other sponsors)**This one day workshop will explore the vision of our religious communities as contexts for the discovery of “higher ground.” The presentations will be interactive and will offer specific skills and practices from the world of conflict transformation to assit professional and lay leaders in realizing this vision. * *REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2lVQDDO&d=CwMFAg…>* *Performance and Discussion of “Kultar’s Mime”**Sunday, April 9, * *4-6 pm, Tsai Auditorium, Harvard University**“Kultar's Mime” is a play that blends painting, poetry, theater and music to tell the stories of Sikh children who survived the 1984 Delhi massacre that was organized in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. A collective of young Jewish artists decides to commemorate a 1903 Pogrom that targeted Jews in the Russian town of Kishinev. During their journey, they learn about the 1984 massacre of the Sikhs in Delhi and in a powerful moment of embracing the pain of the 'other', they shift focus and decide to tell a story that the world has largely ignored. **REGISTER HERE <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_k…>* Best wishes, Pluralism Project staff -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>!

7 years, 2 months

March 7th event and exciting news!

by Pluralism Project Staff

*WHAT: Roundtable Discussion: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston* *WHEN & WHERE: March 7th at 6 pm in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, Harvard University* *MORE INFO: Click here <https://www.facebook.com/events/962567907176893/>* Dear friends, We hope our local allies will join us for our upcoming event on March 7th. This event will serve as the kickoff to a larger project, which brings us to some exciting news: *The Pluralism Project has received a grant from the Open Society Foundations' initiative "Communities Against Hate."* We are eager to gather a diverse group of voices together for the first event in this series, so please take a moment to register <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JTRBBCZ> if you would like to join us on Tuesday, March 7th. Our initiative, "Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston <http://pluralism.org/communities-against-hate-response-and-resilience-in-mu…>," will bring together leaders and community members from religious, interfaith, and civic groups for monthly sessions over the next 6 months where attendees can network, share information, and collaborate on best practices. The Pluralism Project will also be documenting support efforts and bias-motivated incidents while creating a centralized calendar for events and actions. We are eager to partner with local leaders and groups to build and strengthen multi-sided networks of response and resilience. Below this message you will find the press release with more details about the program, and you can bookmark the initiative page <http://pluralism.org/communities-against-hate-response-and-resilience-in-mu…> to stay up-to-date on relevant events and endeavors. We are also offering summer internships <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/internship-opportunities/> to support this work, so please pass this along to any undergraduate or graduate students (from any college or university) who might be interested. We hope to see many of you on Tuesday, and we look forward to keeping you updated as we move forward on this timely and important project! Best wishes, The Pluralism Project staff -------------------------------------- *Pluralism Project Launches Initiative “Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston” Through Grant from the Open Society Foundations* *Cambridge, MA, March 1, 201*7– On March 7th, The Pluralism Project at Harvard University will launch its new initiative, “Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston.” The public event, held at 6 pm in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall on Harvard’s campus, will be a roundtable discussion with civic and religious leaders as well as members of communities most affected by increased hate speech and bias-motivated harassment. This event will include civic leaders from the Attorney General’s Office, Cambridge City Council, the ACLU, and other local organizations. The second event in this project, a performance and discussion of the powerful play “Kultar’s Mime,” will take place in early April in Cambridge. This project is made possible by a grant from the Open Society Foundations’ rapid-response initiative, “Communities Against Hate,” which allocates multiple small grants for projects responding to and fighting against acts of hate while supporting collaboration, cooperation, and bridge-building among vulnerable communities and their allies. The Pluralism Project’s longstanding track record as a trusted resource for research, education, and collaboration makes it an ideal partner for this initiative of the Open Society Foundations. Incidents of hate crimes and bias-motivated harassment are rising in Greater Boston, from spray-painted swastikas in high school bathrooms to the verbal harassment of Sikh and Muslim college students. At the same time, we have seen a striking increase in civic response that builds solidarity. The Project’s 8-month initiative will collaborate with Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian communities to track incidents of harassment as well as the response of local communities. This project will also include monthly sessions for leaders from these communities in order to centralize information sharing, document local incidents, offer skill-building opportunities, and allow leaders to network and share best practices in increasingly difficult times. Pluralism Project staff will also develop a decision-based case study about a Boston incident that might enable leaders and laity to understand some of the dilemmas and strategies of response when an individual or community is attacked. Pluralism Project Director and Harvard University Professor Diana Eck expressed her excitement for the work ahead: “In this climate of fear, threat, and uncertainty that affects many vulnerable communities, it is urgent to develop multi-sided networks of response and resilience. We need to hear each other -- Sikhs, Muslims, Jews, and Christians, African Americans and Latinos, mayors and city councilors. Whether the harassment of a Sikh student at Harvard or the swastikas on a suburban school wall, the issues we face are of mutual concern across lines of faith. For many years, the Pluralism Project has been at the forefront of documenting the fast-changing religious landscape of greater Boston. I look forward to this opportunity to convene a working group of religious and civic leaders as we face the future together.” As OSF moves forward with other grantees in the Boston area, the Pluralism Project will work to build relationships and collaborate with these new partners. For more information on the event and this initiative, please visit the Pluralism Project website (www.pluralism.org). -------------------------------------- *Want to invest with us in this immensely important work?* *Make a tax-deductible donation online <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/> or donate by check at the address below, payable to Harvard University (Memo note: "Pluralism Project")Want to get involved?* *Email us <staff(a)pluralism.org>, follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pluralismproj/?fref=ts> to learn about events, films, and organizations, or call us to find out about opportunities to engage* -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…> !

7 years, 2 months

[Pluralism Project] Today's event canceled, but exciting news to come!

by Pluralism Project Staff

Dear all, We apologize for the late notice but due to the inclement weather, we have decided to cancel today’s event, “*Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston*.” Though we are still committed to bringing together a diverse group of leaders, we do not want to put any of our attendees in danger or ask anyone to undertake unsafe conditions to travel to this event. We will stay in touch about possibly rescheduling it at a future date, and stay tuned for some exciting news about our new project, “*Communities Against Hate: Response and Resilience in Multireligious Boston*.” If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know. Stay safe and dry! Best wishes, The Pluralism Project Staff -- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>!

7 years, 3 months

Cultivating Pluralism at a Critical Time

by Pluralism Project Staff

[image: http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/] <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/> Dear Friends, We greet you at the end of 2016, an extraordinary and critical year for the Pluralism Project and for America's public and political commitment to pluralism. At a time when many Americans are uncertain about the strength of our identity as a multireligious and multicultural nation, the Pluralism Project <http://www.pluralism.org> looks with confidence to the vision, the reality and the future of the American experiment. It is a vision based in the Constitutional promise of religious freedom, a blueprint for the very diversity that is ours today. As we move forward, we do so with renewed resolve, and a new mission that will inform our ongoing, and increasingly important efforts: *The Pluralism Project: **Engaging, Educating, and Strengthening the Next Generation of * *Religious and Civic Leaders in the United States.* For more than two decades, the Pluralism Project has studied the changing religious landscape of our nation. Our confidence in pluralism –the engagement of our differences in the common project of citizenship—is based on grassroots research among the religious communities of the United States. We have come to know the diverse and dedicated faith communities of our nation through their hospitality, their energy, and their commitment to American values. Our vision is deeply informed by the enduring principles and practices of the world’s religions and, above all, by the emerging infrastructure of interfaith engagement that is strengthening local communities across the country. We are confident that these gains cannot be reversed by the forms of fear and division that have come to the surface in the turbulence of the election and its aftermath. Engaging our diversity in cities and towns across the country will continue to be the strength of our democracy. Our goal is to support and encourage the next generation of civic and religious leaders as they strengthen the bridges and networks of relationship that will serve a diverse, dynamic, and interdependent society. In his most recent book, Thomas Friedman has forcefully mentioned Harvard's Pluralism Project and our insistence that pluralism is not mere diversity, but engagement with that diversity, not relativism, but the encounter of commitments based on dialogue across differences. "Being able to embrace and nurture this kind of true pluralism is a huge asset for a society in the age of accelerations," he writes. "Indeed, I would go a step further and say that the return on investment on pluralism... will soar and become maybe the single most important competitive advantage for a society –for both economic and political reasons." *We ask you to *invest in the promotion of pluralism <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/>*.* The Pluralism Project engages students, teachers, and citizens in tackling the most important issues of our time. But the project of pluralism must engage all of us –and we invite you to that engagement in the New Year that lies before us. Sincerely, Dr. Diana L. Eck Director, The Pluralism Project *Want to invest with us in this immensely important work?* *Make a tax-deductible donation online <http://pluralism.org/about/contribute/donate/> or donate by check at the address below, payable to Harvard University (Memo note: "Pluralism Project")Want to get involved?* *Email us <staff(a)pluralism.org>, follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pluralismproj/?fref=ts> to learn about events, films, and organizations, or call us to find out about opportunities to engage* The Pluralism Project at Harvard University 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>

7 years, 4 months

Thankful for the New "We"

by Pluralism Project Staff

[image: Inline image 3] [image: Inline image 4][image: Inline image 2] <http:///> 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. . . 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 Twittter: @pluralismproj Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…>!

7 years, 5 months

25th Anniversary Conference

by Pluralism Project Staff

*Join us for our conference!* *Pluralism Project @ 25: Diversity and Inclusion in the American Crucible* *Harvard University, Sept. 21-23, 2016* Dear Friends, We hope your fall is off to a great start. Here in Cambridge, the students have just returned to campus and there is certainly a renewed energy in the air. With so much promise and excitement, it feels fitting that our 25th anniversary conference will take place in just two weeks. We sent out information about this conference in June, but we now want to share the most up-to-date schedule <http://www.pluralism.org/events/pp-at-25>. During the receptions, meals, and panels we will grapple with tough questions, participate in deep discussions, and look ahead to the important work we will undertake in our next 25 years. We hope you will be an important partner in these conversations. *Panels include:* - Harvard: From Diversity to Pluralism - Challenges of Diversity and Inclusion - Keynote Lunch Discussion with Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna of NYU - The Campus Crucible - Pluralism and the Practice of Peacebuilding - Speaking the Sikh Experience: Visible Difference in the Crucible of Change - El Hibri Foundation Panel on Islamophobia in the Age of Interfaith Want to read more? Please visit the conference homepage <http://www.pluralism.org/events/pp-at-25>. *The conference is free but requires registration and space is limited, so please register <http://www.pluralism.org/events/pp-at-25>** if you plan to join us!* For our friends who are too far away to attend, we will be recording our sessions and sharing those videos in weeks after the conference. We hope to see you there! Warmly, Dr. Diana L. Eck Director, The Pluralism Project *The Pluralism Project at Harvard University* *2 Arrow Street, 4th FloorCambridge, MA 02138* 617-496-2481 www.pluralism.org Twittter: @pluralismproj <http://www.twitter.com/pluralismproj> Like The Pluralism Project on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pluralism-Project-at-Harvard-University/1…> !

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