PAW Presentation with Dr. Eboo Patel - Our Common Life: Sustainability through Interfaith Connections

PAW Presentation with Dr. Eboo Patel - Our Common Life: Sustainability through Interfaith Connections
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, September 12, 2017
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In a world where diverse faith communities interact with great frequency and intensity, how can we both preserve the particularities of our distinct faith traditions while promoting positive interfaith cooperation?  How can interfaith interaction improve cultural competency and relationships in ways that strengthen our civil society?  

Join Dr. Eboo Patel in discovering possibilities to these questions and many more.  

Dr. Patel founded Interfaith Youth Core on the idea that religion should be a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. He is inspired to build this bridge by his identity as an American Muslim navigating a highly religiously diverse social landscape. For more than 15 years, he has worked with governments, social sector organizations and college and university campuses to help make interfaith cooperation a social norm. Named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Dr. Patel served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council and is the author of Acts of Faith, Sacred Ground and Interfaith Leadership. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.

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