Overview

Pluralism is an ethic for living together in a society as diverse as ours is today. This accessible collection of twelve case studies in pluralism in practice includes brief scenarios, framing questions, and updates on some of the key dilemmas and decisions we encounter in our multireligious encounters and lives. The book is an introduction to the case method created at Harvard University’s The Pluralism Project, inviting close reading, reflection, and discussion into the dilemmas and disputes of our multireligious society for people who are professionally or passionately involved in developing and fostering our multireligious future.

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Author:   Elinor J. Pierce ,  Diana L. Eck ,  Jon M Sweeney
Publisher:   Orbis Books (USA)
Imprint:   Orbis Books (USA)
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781626985483

ISBN 10:   1626985480
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Book
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Defining Pluralism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Part 1. Constructing Religious Diversity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Christmas Tree Crisis at Sea-Tac Airport. . . . . . . . . . 3 A Festival of Faiths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Part 2. Religion in the American City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Trouble in Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 A Call to Prayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Part 3. Fault Lines in Interfaith Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 A Sign of Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Fliers at the Peace Parade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Part 4. Mosques in the American Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A Mosque in Palos Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Center of Dispute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Part 5. Interfaith and Multifaith Challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 A Question of Membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Showing Up for Shabbat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Part 6. Navigating Crisis and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 A Quandary in Queens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Forty-Nine Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Afterword: A Pedagogy of Pluralism by Diana L. Eck. . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

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"""Instructive and enlightening.""--Publisher's Weekly"

Author Information

Elinor (Ellie) Pierce is the research director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. She is the co-editor of With the Best of Intentions (Orbis, 2023). Ellie wrote chapters in the Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies (Georgetown, 2022) and Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field (Beacon, 2018). She has contributed to a range of other publications and media projects, including On Common Ground: World Religions in America and World Religions in Boston: A Guide to Communities and Resources. Ellie is the producer/director of the documentary film Abraham's Bridge (forthcoming); she co-produced and co-directed the documentary Fremont, U.S.A. (2009) and helped to develop Acting on Faith: Women’s New Religious Activism in America (2005). She earned her Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School. Diana L. Eck has taught at Harvard since 1976. She is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She serves in the Departments of Religion and South Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is also a member of Faculty of Divinity. For twenty years, Professor Eck was Faculty Dean of Lowell House, one of Harvard’s twelve undergraduate residential Houses. She received her B.A from Smith College (1967) in Religion, her M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1968) in South Asian History, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (1976) in the Comparative Study of Religion.

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