Building the Interfaith Youth Movement

Beyond Dialogue to Action

Edited by Eboo Patel, Patrice Brodeur

Publication date:

07 March 2006

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742550667

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.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 CONTEXTS OF INTERFAITH YOUTH WORK
Chapter 5 Affirming Identity, Acheiving Pluralism
Chapter 6 Young Adult Development, Religious Identity, and Interreligious Solidarity in an Interfaith Learning Community
Chapter 7 Theologies of Interreligious Encounters and Their Relevance to Youth
Part 8 INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 9 Towards a Transnational Interfaith Youth Network in Higher Education
Chapter 10 The Gujarat Young Adult Project of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF)
Chapter 11 Youth Leadership
Chapter 12 The Next Generation
Part 13 HIGHER EDUCATION
Chapter 14 Youth and the Pluralism Project
Chapter 15 Seminarians Interacting
Chapter 16 Towards a Multifaith Community at Wellesley College
Chapter 17 Bringing Interfaith to the University of Illinois
Chapter 18 Ariculating What is at Stake in Interreligious Work
Part 19 SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 20 Teaching World Religions
Chapter 21 Secondary School Teacher Training in Religious Studies
Chapter 22 Training Teachers in American Religious Diversity
Part 23 COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS
Chapter 24 The Interfaith Youth Core
Chapter 25 Interfaith Youth Leadership Council of the Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Chapter 26 The High School Youth Program of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
Chapter 27 The Sacred Stories of the Ghetto Film School
Part 28 IMMERSION PROJECTS
Chapter 29 Spirit into Action
Chapter 30 E Pluribus Union
Chapter 31 The Chicago Interfaith Service House
Chapter 32 Face to Face/Faith to Faith
Part 33 PASTORAL WORK
Chapter 34 Ask Pastor Paul
Chapter 35 Conclusion
Chapter 36 Epilogue
Chapter 37 Index
Chapter 38 About the Contributors

Those working in higher education, or with similar aged youth, will find this volume a valuable resource across campus divisions: administrators in preparing mission and strategic planning, faculty in the classroom, administrators in student affairs, and chaplains in campus ministry offices to name a few. Perhaps [this book can be] most effectively used as a reference book for working groups exploring ways to foster interfaith action.