ISACS 2022-23 Parent Series: Religious Diversity: A Great American Strength Eboo Patel, Interfaith America

What

ISACS 2022-23 Parent Series: Religious Diversity: A Great American Strength Eboo Patel, Interfaith America

When

1/17/2023, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Where

Click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z4NT6Dq9TGmH77Bo1fjyxg

Tuesday, January 17th
7:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom
Religious Diversity: A Great American Strength
Eboo Patel, Interfaith America


Religion is too often left out of the conversation on diversity. This is a shame because there is much to learn and admire about the American experience with welcoming religious diversity and nurturing interfaith cooperation. In this talk, founder and president of Interfaith America, and author of the recent book We Need to Build will tell the inspiring story of how the United States became the world’s first attempt at religiously diverse democracy, a potluck nation that invites the contributions of people from Atheists to Zoroastrians.






EBOO PATEL is a widely acclaimed civic leader who believes that religious diversity is an essential and inspiring dimension of American democracy. Named “one of America’s best leaders” by US News and World Report, Patel is founder and president of Interfaith America (formerly Interfaith Youth Core), the leading interfaith organization in the United States. Under his leadership, Interfaith America has worked with governments, universities, private companies, and civic organizations to make faith a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. He served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council, has given hundreds of keynote addresses, and wrote five books, including We Need to Build: Fieldnotes for Diverse Democracy published in May 2022. He is an Ashoka Fellow and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.