Project Resources

Publications

Jennifer Howe Peace and Elinor J. Pierce, Pilgrimage, Pluralism, and Place: Essays in Conversation with Diana Eck (2024).

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

Diana L. Eck, A New Religious America: How a 'Christian Country' Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. (2001). Please read more about the book here.

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.

Select Chapters & Articles by Pluralism Project Staff

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

“Abraham’s Bridge: An Intentional Interfaith Neighborhood,” Ellie Pierce in Living City Magazine (Mar-Apr 2024)

“Leadership, Listening, and Literacy: Making the Case for Interreligious Studies,” Ellie Pierce in The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies, Lucinda Allen Mosher, editor (Georgetown University Press 2022) 

“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).

Additional Resources

See Media page for Pluralism Project films and media.