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In this compelling, funny, enlightening guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to promote understanding across religious lines, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clear, detailed, and practical guide to interfaith leadership. Patel explains what interfaith leadership is and explores the core competencies and skills of interfaith leadership, before turning to the issues interfaith leaders face and how they can prepare to solve them. Interfaith leaders seek points of connection and commonality'AEiin their neighborhoods, schools, college campuses, companies, organizations, hospitals, and other spaces where people of different faiths interact. While it can be challenging to navigate the differences and disagreements that can arise from these interactions, skilled interfaith leaders are vital if we are to have a strong, religiously diverse democracy. This primer presents listeners with the philosophical underpinnings of interfaith theory and outlines the skills necessary to practice interfaith leadership today.

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Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and the author of Acts of Faith. He was a member of President Obama'AEos inaugural faith council, is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and public radio, and speaks frequently about interfaith cooperation on college campuses. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two boys. Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor who has performed on stage, film, and television. He has also recorded over one hundred audiobooks, for which he has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including Earphones, various Best of the Year lists, and the Audie Award. When not recording, acting, or directing, he can be found lecturing in the Theater Department at UCLA.

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