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Interfaith Leadership

A Primer

Author Eboo Patel
Ebook
Beacon Press
On sale Jul 05, 2016 | 208 Pages | 9780807033630
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A guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines

In this book, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clear, detailed, and practical guide to interfaith leadership, illustrated with compelling examples. Patel explains what interfaith leadership is and explores the core competencies and skills of interfaith leadership, before turning to the issues interfaith leaders face and how they can prepare to solve them. Interfaith leaders seek points of connection and commonality—in their neighborhoods, schools, college campuses, companies, organizations, hospitals, and other spaces where people of different faiths interact with one another. While it can be challenging to navigate the differences and disagreements that can arise from these interactions, skilled interfaith leaders are vital if we are to have a strong, religiously diverse democracy. This primer presents readers with the philosophical underpinnings of interfaith theory and outlines the skills necessary to practice interfaith leadership today.
Introduction

IDENTITY
1 The Identity of an Interfaith Leader

THEORY
2 The “Inter” in Interfaith
3 The “Faith” in Interfaith

VISION
4 The Vision of Interfaith Leadership

KNOWLEDGE BASE
5 The Knowledge Base of Interfaith Leadership

SKILL SET
6 The Skill Set of Interfaith Leadership

QUALITIES
7 The Qualities of Interfaith Leadership

Conclusion

Appendix: Summary of Frameworks

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index
Named “one of America’s best leaders” by U.S. News and World Report, Eboo Patel is Founder and President of Interfaith America, the leading interfaith organization in the United States. Under his leadership, Interfaith America has worked with governments, universities, private companies, and civic organizations to make faith a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. Eboo served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council, has given hundreds of keynote addresses, and has written five books. He is an Ashoka Fellow and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and their two sons.
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A guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines

In this book, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clear, detailed, and practical guide to interfaith leadership, illustrated with compelling examples. Patel explains what interfaith leadership is and explores the core competencies and skills of interfaith leadership, before turning to the issues interfaith leaders face and how they can prepare to solve them. Interfaith leaders seek points of connection and commonality—in their neighborhoods, schools, college campuses, companies, organizations, hospitals, and other spaces where people of different faiths interact with one another. While it can be challenging to navigate the differences and disagreements that can arise from these interactions, skilled interfaith leaders are vital if we are to have a strong, religiously diverse democracy. This primer presents readers with the philosophical underpinnings of interfaith theory and outlines the skills necessary to practice interfaith leadership today.

Table of Contents

Introduction

IDENTITY
1 The Identity of an Interfaith Leader

THEORY
2 The “Inter” in Interfaith
3 The “Faith” in Interfaith

VISION
4 The Vision of Interfaith Leadership

KNOWLEDGE BASE
5 The Knowledge Base of Interfaith Leadership

SKILL SET
6 The Skill Set of Interfaith Leadership

QUALITIES
7 The Qualities of Interfaith Leadership

Conclusion

Appendix: Summary of Frameworks

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Author

Named “one of America’s best leaders” by U.S. News and World Report, Eboo Patel is Founder and President of Interfaith America, the leading interfaith organization in the United States. Under his leadership, Interfaith America has worked with governments, universities, private companies, and civic organizations to make faith a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. Eboo served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council, has given hundreds of keynote addresses, and has written five books. He is an Ashoka Fellow and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and their two sons.
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