Interfaith Leadership, Eboo Patel
Interfaith Leadership, Eboo Patel
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Interfaith Leadership
A Primer

Author: Eboo Patel

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 08/28/2018

Synopsis

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.

About The 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on March 15, 2021

Pay no attention to the author's guidance on who this book is for. This book is for ANYONE who is interested in a religiously diverse democracy and pluralism. Thoughtful and thought provoking. I loved it.......more

Goodreads review by David on January 29, 2023

This was a book I really needed to read as Executive Director of Loudoun Interfaith BRIDGES. I was so happy to find many of my own insights affirmed here, but so wonderfully organized and articulated. I’m new to this work in many ways and so appreciate deeply the longer, deeper experience of Eboo Pa......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on January 31, 2021

This book is so important and it’s executed so well. Anyone who’s going to be involved in social issues needs to read this. Even if interfaith leadership isn’t a passion of yours, or you don’t think it necessary, trust me you’ll need many of the skills and stories in this book. It moved me so much,......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 05, 2023

Solid book for those who are new to interfaith concepts and leadership ideas. I give it three stars not because it wasn't successful at its purpose, but because I found it remedial since I've read several other denser volumes on the same subject. A bit too much anecdotal and light on practice and th......more

Goodreads review by Greer on November 27, 2024

Incredible work! I appreciate how this book didn't take a universalist approach because he would have lost a lot of readers quickly. It was really helpful in my work as a chaplain at the moment in working with many different students on their own faith journey. Sometimes, it's hard knowing how to ha......more

Quotes

“This book makes it clear why Eboo Patel is one of the most inspiring and successful interfaith leaders on the national, and even international, scene.”
—Paul F. Knitter, author of Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian

“Make no mistake: far from being the easy assertion of well-intentioned liberalism, civic interfaith leadership is a subtle and demanding skill that requires patience, political savvy, historical knowledge, and careful reflection, as well as inspiration and goodwill. Accessible, inspiring, and rigorous, Interfaith Leadership will almost certainly become required reading in almost any class or workshop that engages religious diversity in our society today. Most of all, Patel has a keen eye for the stories that Americans have lived in trying to create and nurture that precious public space, where deeply held religious differences are neither ignored, nor dissolved, but woven into a common good.”
—Laurie L. Patton, Professor of Religion, and President, Middlebury

“At a time when Americans are fiercely debating differences over race, class and gender, Eboo Patel makes a compelling argument that to achieve healing, we must reconcile religious differences as well. Drawing upon practical stories as well as scholarly writings, he shows how we can move beyond diversity to an enriching pluralism. This is an important, insightful book by a man who has become a model of interfaith leadership.”
—David Gergen, Professor of Public Service and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School

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