Acts of Faith : The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
ISBN: 9780807077450
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Beacon Press
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Patel, a former Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford, is the founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, an organization that unites young people of different religions to perform community service and explore their common values. Patel argues that such work is essential, manifesting "the faith line" that will define the 21st century. Patel's own story is more powerful than the exhaustive examples he provides of how mainstream faith failed to reach young people like Osama bin Laden and Yighal Amir, the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin. With honesty, Patel relates how he suffered the racist taunts of fellow youth, and, in response, alternately rebelled against and absorbed the religion of his parents-Islam-but in his own way. Meanwhile, he continued to pursue interfaith work with vigor, not quite knowing his end goal but always feeling in his gut that interfaith understanding was the key. This autobiography of a young activist captures how an angry youth can be transformed-by faith, by the community and, most of all, by himself-into a profound leader for the cause of peace. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Eboo Patel , Ph.D., is founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, an international nonprofit building the interfaith youth movement. He was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. Patel writes "The Faith Divide" blog for The Washington Post  and has also written for the  Harvard Divinity School Bulletin,  the  Chicago Tribune, The Clinton Journal, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The Sunday Times of India  and National Public Radio. He has been featured on a range of media, including  CNN Sunday Morning , NPR's  Morning Edition , the PBS documentary  Three Faiths, One God ,  The New Republic , American Public Media, the BBC, and CNN. Patel is a sought-after speaker whose addresses include the keynote speech at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum with President Jimmy Carter and the Baccalaureate Service Address at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of  Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation  and the coeditor of  Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action . An Ashoka Fellow, Patel was named by  Islamica Magazine  as one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America, was chosen by Harvard's  Kennedy School Review  as one of five future policy leaders to watch, and was selected to join the Young Global Leaders network of the World Economic Forum. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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