The Pluralism Project

The Pluralism Project

"In 1991, the Pluralism Project at Harvard University began a pioneering study of America's changing religious landscape. Through an expanding network of affiliates, we document the contours of our multi-religious society, explore new forms of interfaith engagement, and study the impact of religious diversity in civic life. In 2000, we expanded our study of pluralism to other multi-religious societies."

Funding

 * Ford Foundation
 * Harvard Divinity School
 * Harvard University, Office of the Provost
 * Henry Luce Foundation
 * Lilly Endowment, Inc.
 * Massachusetts Endowment for the Humanities
 * Milton Fund
 * National Endowment for the Humanities
 * North Star Fund
 * Pew Charitable Trusts
 * Rockefeller Foundation
 * Templeton Foundation
 * Private donors

People
Senior Staff Research Associates
 * Diana L. Eck - Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, The Pluralism Project
 * Elinor J. Pierce - Senior Researcher
 * Kathryn Lohre - Assistant Director
 * Deonnie Moodie - Research Coordinator
 * Alan G. Wagner - Webmaster
 * Ryan R. Overbey - Web Assistant
 * Geoff Barstow - Research Associate
 * Erin Loeb - Research Associate
 * Chris Morales - Research Associate

Advisory Board

 * Margot Adler - Correspondent, National Public Radio, Nature Religions; Goddess Spirituality; Religion and Ecology; Religion and Technology
 * Leila Ahmed - Harvard Divinity School, Women and Gender in Islam; Islam in America; Women's Studies in Religion
 * Ali Asani - Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion, Islam; Muslim Youth in North America
 * Dorothy A. Austin - Associate Minister, Memorial Church; Chaplain to Harvard University; Lecturer in Psychology and Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Religion and Psychology; Psychology, Arts, and the Humanities; Psychoanalysis and Meditation
 * Karen McCarthy Brown - Drew University, Graduate and Theological School, Haitian Vodou; African-based religions in the U.S.; Black/White relations; Religion in Newark; HIV/Aids Communities as Sites of Moral Discourse & Creative Religious Practice; Religion Outside the Institutions
 * Diana L. Eck - Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion; Director of the Pluralism Project, Religious Traditions of India; Interreligious Relations; Religious Pluralism in America
 * Charles Haynes - Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Religious Freedom; Religion and Public Education; Teaching About Religions in the Public School Curriculum
 * Gurinder Singh Mann - University of California at Santa Barbara, Sikhs in the U.S.
 * Aminah Beverly McCloud - DePaul University, Department of Religious Studies, Islam in America; Comparisons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe
 * Vasudha Narayanan - University of Florida, Gainesville, Department of Religion, Hinduism in the U.S.; Hindu-Muslim Interactions in Ritual Spaces; Women in the Hindu Tradition
 * Paul D. Numrich - Religion in Urban America Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, Buddhism; Islam; Other Non-Judeo-Christian Religions
 * Christopher S. Queen - Harvard Division of Continuing Education, Contemporary Buddhism; American Buddhism; Engaged Buddhism; Comparative Liberation Theologies
 * Anantanand Rambachan - St. Olaf College, Religion Department, Advaita Vedanta; Authority of Scripture; Hinduism in Diaspora; Interreligious Dialogue
 * Rohinton Rivetna - Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), Zoroastrianism in the U.S.; Interfaith Activities
 * Omid Safi - Colgate University, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Islamic Mysticism; Contemporary Islamic Thought; Medieval Islamic History
 * Richard Seager - Hamilton College, Religious Studies Department, Buddhism in the U.S.
 * Pravin K. Shah - Federation of Jain Associations of North America and Jain Study Center of North America, Teaching of Jainism to Youth in North Carolina; Development of Jain Literature Website and Home Study Course
 * Muzammil H. Siddiqi - Professor, Cal State Fullerton; Director, Islamic Society of Orange County, Islam in North America
 * Robert Stockman - DePaul University, Religious Studies Department; Institute for Baha'i Studies, Baha'i History; World Religions in America; Interfaith Activities; Baha'i Curriculum Development
 * Donald K. Swearer - Swarthmore College, Department of Religion, Theravada Buddhism; Buddhism and Christianity; Engaged Buddhism; American Buddhism; Immigrant Buddhism
 * Raymond Williams - Wabash College, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning, Religions of South Asian Immigrants in the U.S.; Swaminarayan Hinduism; Srivaishnava Acharyas
 * Dr. Yifa - Hsi Lai University, Monastic Regulation and Institutions; Chinese Buddhism; Humanistic Buddhism; Vinaya from Chinese Resources

Contact

 * Web: http://www.pluralism.org

Resources and articles

 * Zen Benefiel
 * Patricia Ikeda