Tag: Pluralism Project

  • Nation & World

    Thinking globally, differently

    Harvard students now represent more than 50 countries and a spectrum of cultures, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. Because of that, teaching is changing too, said speakers at Conversations@FAS, a faculty forum.

    4–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A backdrop on Islam in America

    A teach-in at Harvard tries to put the Ground Zero mosque controversy in a historical context.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Lohre named
 NCC president-elect

    Kathryn M. Lohre has been elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches (NCC) by the NCC Governing Board.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Project finds Hindus in New Jersey, Buddhists in Montana

    An influx of new immigrants that began in 1965 when U.S. immigration laws were liberalized has changed our society in ways that contradict traditional assumptions about the correlation of religion and geography. Mapping this religious diversity is the goal of the Pluralism Project, founded in 1991 by Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian…

    1–2 minutes