Interfaith Education Links

Auburn Seminary educates leaders to meet the challenges of religious and public life. Today, religious communities that seek to reconcile all people to each other and to God require leaders of great wisdom and skill. To prepare people for these challenges, Auburn sponsors programs on complex issues in religious traditions and contemporary life, gathers critical intelligence about religion and education in our society, and encourages thoughtful conversation across the often divisive boundaries of faith, race, class and gender.

CLAL, long recognized for its important inter-denominational education programs that are focused on religious differences within the Jewish community, has become a leader more recently in interfaith education.

Understanding the search for meaning as universal and essential, we support that search as necessary to the nourishment of young people of conscience and community. We serve as a national resource for schools to encourage the moral, ethical, and spiritual development of young people. We promote community service, providing resources and a network for schools' involvement in community service and service learning. We develop programs and services, which encourage a school climate of open ethical and religious inquiry and expression. We support instruction in world religions and ethics as essential components of a complete education.

The purpose of the GDI is to promote dialogue in the broadest sense among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures, focusing especially though not exclusively on the "opinion-shapers" of society, scholars, professionals, as well as institutional and business leaders.

The Pluralism Project was developed by Diana L. Eck at Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities. As part of this research, the Pluralism Project explores how the United States is changing as we begin to appropriate this new religious diversity in our public life and institutions, and in emerging forms of interfaith relationships.

WIFEA (Ontario) will build partnerships to design and promote relevant educational programs which develop knowledge about diverse beliefs, faiths and spiritual traditions, and the skills necessary to nurture the values of mutual understanding, respect and cooperation among all people.