Resources on Religious Pluralism

Recommended Articles

Barbara A. McGraw, “Toward a Framework for Interfaith Leadership.” In Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPICHE). Vol 3, Issue 1. (2017). https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/epiche/vol3/iss1/2/

Barbara A. McGraw, “Cross-Cultural Leadership as Interfaith Leadership.” In Interreligious Studies: Dispatches from an Emerging Field. Hans Gustafson, ed. Baylor University Press, 2020.

Mark E. Hanshaw with Usra Ghazi, “Interfaith Studies and the Professions: Could Heightened Religious Understanding Seed Success within Secular Careers?”  In Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field. Eboo Patel, Jennifer Howe Peace, and Noah Silverman, eds. New York: HarperCollins, 2018.

Barbara A. McGraw, “From Prison Religion to Interfaith Leadership for Institutional Change.” In Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field. Eboo Patel, Jennifer Howe Peace, and Noah Silverman, eds. New York: HarperCollins, 2018.

Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom, “Positive Power.” In The Transforming Leader New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, Carol S. Pearson, ed.  San Francisco: Bennett-Koehler Publishers, 2012.

Barbara A. McGraw, “Religious Pluralism at the Crossroads.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. Barbara A. McGraw, ed. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Books On Pluralism, Religious Diversity, and Interfaith Leadership

Barbara A. McGraw, Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in Pluralistic America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press., 2003.

Barbara A. McGraw and Jo Renee Formicola, eds. Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America's Sacred Ground. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2005. (Foreword by Diana L. Eck.)

Eboo Patel, Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2013.

Chad V. Meister, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Catherine Cornille, ed. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Eboo Patel, Interfaith Leadership: A Primer. Beacon Press, 2016.

Eboo Patel, Jennifer Howe Peace, and Noah Silverman, eds. Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field. Beacon Press, 2018.

Kathleen M. Goodman, Mary Ellen Giess, and Eboo Patel, eds. Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2019.

Hans Gustafson, ed. Interreligious Studies: Dispatches from an Emerging Field. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020.

Robert S. Ellwood and Barbara A. McGraw, Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions. London, UK: Routledge Press, (several editions over decades, including the eleventh, forthcoming 2022).

Kate McCarthy, Interfaith Encounters in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Books On Overcoming “Lens” Bias, Transforming Leadership, and Communication

James MacGregor Burns, Transforming Leadership: A New Pursuit of Happiness. New York: Grove Press, 2003.

Joanne B. Ciulla, ed. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership. 3rd ed. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2014. (Foreword by James MacGregor Burns.)

Howard Ross, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgment in Our Daily Lives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Marshall B. Rosenberg and Deepak Chopra, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Encinitas, CA: PuddleDancer Press, 2015.

Helpful Links

The Pluralism Project - https://pluralism.org
https://pluralism.org/case-initiative

Interfaith Youth Core - https://www.ifyc.org/resources

United Religions Initiative - http://www.uri.org/

Hindu American Foundation (HAF) - www.hafsite.org

Islamic Networks Group (ING) - www.ing.org