Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel is the founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. Author of the award-winning book Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, Eboo is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, National Public Radio and CNN. He is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University.

(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/Law, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesApril 23, 2015

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

For whom may the personal be political, and how?

Politics/LawMay 6, 2013

What is Interfaith Cooperation For?

By Eboo Patel

“The central problem interfaith work seeks to solve is this: how are all of us, with our deep differences, to share a nation and a world together? In my view, that is primarily a question of civic space, not political ideology.”

RD10QMay 12, 2010

RD10Q: No Peace Without Pluralism

By Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel on forging an American Muslim Identity, on the founding of the Interfaith Youth Core, and on the positive role that religion can play in the world…

Politics/LawFebruary 9, 2009

Arguing Identity: Race, Religion, and Beyond

By Eboo Patel

Buried in the typical bile on the comment board of my last column is an interesting thread about the nature of identity…