Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 11-09-2009 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Leaders/Stories
Ebrahim “Eboo” Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core and author of Acts of Faith: Interfaith Cooperation in a Time of Religious Conflict is bringing young people from diverse religious backgrounds together to work on social projects that can foster cooperation rather than conflict, leading to religious pluralism.
He completed his doctorate at Oxford University in the sociology of religion on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1999, he founded Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago to bring young people of different faiths together. Patel was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Council of The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Initiatives, and was recently named one of the 2009 “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report.
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