Building The Interfaith Youth Movement

Acknowledgements

Preface
Diana Eck
Introduction
Patrice Brodeur And Eboo Patel
CONTEXTS OF INTERFAITH YOUTH WORK

Affirming Identity, Acheiving Pluralism
Eboo Patel
Young Adult Development, Religious Identity, And Interreligious Solidarity In An Interfaith Learning Community
James P. Keen
Theologies Of Interreligious Encounters And Their Relevance To Youth
J. Nathan Kline
INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH ORGANIZATIONS

Towards A Transnational Interfaith Youth Network In Higher Education
Patrice Brodeur
The Gujarat Young Adult Project Of The International Association For Religious Freedom (IARF)
Ramola Sundram And Zulfikar Akram
Youth Leadership
Sarah Talcott
The Next Generation
Josh Borkin
HIGHER EDUCATION

Youth And The Pluralism Project
Grove Harris
Seminarians Interacting
Karen Wood
Towards A Multifaith Community At Wellesley College
Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr.
Bringing Interfaith To The University Of Illinois
S. Amusin, S. Bier, A. Hertzberg, R. Kanchwala, N. Price, A. Siegel
Ariculating What Is At Stake In Interreligious Work
Alison L. Boden
SECONDARY EDUCATION

Teaching World Religions
Jane S. Rechtman
Secondary School Teacher Training In Religious Studies
David Streight
Training Teachers In American Religious Diversity
Matthew Weiner And Timur Yuskaev
COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS

The Interfaith Youth Core
Eboo Patel And Mariah Neuroth
Interfaith Youth Leadership Council Of The Interfaith Ministries For Greater Houston
Julie Eberly
The High School Youth Program Of The Interfaith Conference Of Metropolitan Washington
Michael Goggin
The Sacred Stories Of The Ghetto Film School
Joe Hall And Andrew Unger
IMMERSION PROJECTS

Spirit Into Action
Annapurna Astley
E Pluribus Union
Sidney Schwarz
The Chicago Interfaith Service House
Lori Eisenberg
Face To Face/Faith To Faith
Katharine Henderson And Melodye Feldman
PASTORAL WORK

Ask Pastor Paul
Paul Raushenbush
Conclusion
Eboo Patel
Epilogue
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
Index

About The Contributors

Additional Info
Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and cooperation. Building the Interfaith Youth Movement is the first book to describe this important phenomenon. Contributions include concrete descriptions of various interfaith youth projects across the country-from an arts-program in the South Bronx to a research program at Harvard University to a national organization called the Interfaith Youth Core based in Chicago-written by the founders and leaders of those initiatives. Additional chapters articulate the theory and methodology of this important new movement. This book is a must-read for college chaplains, religious leaders who work with youth, and students and scholars of contemporary religion.