Project Resources

Publications

Elinor J. Pierce, Pluralism in Practice (2023) Orbis Books.

Diana L. Eck, A New Religious America: How a 'Christian Country' Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation(2001) Harper Collins.

On Common Ground: World Religions in America (2002 and 1997) A multimedia CD-ROM exploring America’s changing religious landscape. Now updated and integrated into www.pluralism.org.

World Religions in Boston: A Guide to Communities and Resources (1991, --, 1998,)
 A selective portrait of religious communities in the Greater Boston area. Now updated and integrated into www.pluralism.org.

Films

Fremont, U.S.A. (DVD, 2008)

Acting on Faith: Women’s New Religious Activism in America (DVD or VHS, 2005)

Becoming the Buddha in L.A. (VHS, 1993)

Select Articles by Pluralism Project Staff

Click here for list of selected publications and media appearances by Dr. Diana Eck

Interfaith Infrastructure: The Indispensable Value of the Local” – Diana Eck and Pluralism Project Staff, Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 24, (December 2018)

“Using the Case Method in Interfaith Studies Classrooms” – Ellie Pierce in Interreligious-Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field, Eboo Patel and et al., eds. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press) 2018.

“The Case Study Method as a Means of Teaching About Pluralism” – Brendan W. Randall and Whittney Barth in Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Mark Pugliese and Alexander Hwang, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

“Pluralism: Problems and Promise,” Journal of Interreligious Studies (Issue 17, Summer 2015)

“Diana Eck’s Concept of Pluralism as a Norm for Civic Education in a Religiously Diverse Democracy” – Brendan W. Randall, Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 17 (August 2015).

“Pluralism, Place and the Local” – Whittney Barth, Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 17 (August 2015).

Pluralism: Problems and Promise” – Diana Eck, Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 17 (August 2015).

“'What is at Stake?' Exploring the Problems of Pluralism through the Case Method” – Ellie Pierce, Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 17 (August 2015).

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