Former Affiliates

The Ackland Art Museum

In fall 1997, the Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) began focusing resources on using its multicultural collections to teach about world religions. The collections include ritual objects from Hindu, Buddhist...

Vivienne Angeles

Dr. Vivienne Angeles' study of Filipino Catholic Communities in Philadelphia focused on how Catholicism, as interpreted in the Philippine setting, is reinterpreted by Filipino immigrants in the United States. The study recognized the fact that as...

Rachel Antell

Rachel Antell received an MTS from Harvard Divinity School in 1992 and an MA in documentary film and video from Stanford University in 2001. Her production experience includes two CD-ROMs: On Common Ground: World Religions in the United States, and...

Carlos Arboleda

The Project for Religious Pluralism in Colombia, directed by Dr. Carlos Arboleda Mora, studies the religious diversity in Colombia with a focus on Medellín. This project was developed by El Grupo Religión y Cultura de la Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana...

Linda Barnes

Dr. Linda Barnes is a professor of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and teaches in the Division of Religious and Theological Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. In 2000, she founded the...

Abbas Barzegar

The events of 9/11 came as a shock to the entire world; for Muslim communities, and particularly for those in the United States, there was no time available to privately absorb the impact of the attacks. Muslims were immediately cast into the public...

Martin Baumann

Martin Baumann is professor for the study of religions at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on the history of Buddhism in Germany (1993) and wrote his post-doctorial thesis (habilitation) on Hindu traditions in...

Salima Bhimani

Salima Bhimani works in the areas pf education, the arts, and Muslim women andcommunity development. Her current work examines Muslim arts organizations and collectives across North America, looking at the intersection of arts, activism and faith. Her...

Regina Boisclair

Dr. Regina Boisclair is professor of religious studies and Cardinal Newman chair at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska. She became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 1999. Over the years, she and her students have identified religious groups in...

Patrice Brodeur

Dr. Patrice Brodeur has been involved with the Pluralism Project since the early 1990s and an affiliate since 1999. From 1999-2004, he directed the Pluralism Project at Connecticut College that mapped the religious diversity of New London, Connecticut...

David G. Bromley

Dr. David Bromley founded the World Religions in Richmond project in 2005. The project began with summer research internships for students at Virginia Commonwealth University and, in 2006, became a course during the academic year. Recently, World...

Cindy Brown

Dr. Cindy Brown is a photojournalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 2002 while teaching photojournalism in the journalism department at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Brown's project documented...