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Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel

Founder and President

Interfaith Youth Core

Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, an organization that helps train American college students, supported by their campuses, to be interfaith leaders. His latest book is Interfaith Leadership: A Primer (Beacon, 2016).

Published Articles

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Negotiating Legitimate and Conflicting Values

Eboo Patel, Katie Bringman Baxter, Mark S. Hanson

No. 44 · Fall 2016

In a closing-day conversation at the 2016 Vocation of a Lutheran College Conference, Mark Hanson and Eboo Patel — moderated by Katie Bringman Baxter of Interfaith Youth Core — share case studies in which legitimate religious values come into tension with one another, and make the case that Lutheran colleges should teach interfaith leadership through the hard cases rather than the easy ones.
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What it Means to Build the Bridge: Identity and Diversity at ELCA Colleges

Eboo Patel

No. 40 · Fall 2014

Through the contrasting stories of two college students — Cassie’s identity relativism and April’s soft fundamentalism — Patel diagnoses Peter Berger’s twin pathologies of modernization and argues that ELCA campuses, anchored in Bonhoeffer and the Lutheran capacity to “have faith without laying claim to certainty,” are uniquely equipped to be places where the light falls: bridges of cooperation that nurture both strong religious identity and benevolence toward others.

Eboo Patel

Published Articles

Negotiating Legitimate and Conflicting Values

What it Means to Build the Bridge: Identity and Diversity at ELCA Colleges