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City Profile: Miami, FL (2012)

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Miami, the Gateway to the Americas, has long been an entry point to a nation of immigrants. Geographically, the city’s location on the southeastern coast of Florida has made it a prime location for encounter, from sixteenth century meeting of Spanish...

City Profile: Boston, MA (2012)

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Since its founding in 1630, the city of Boston has been profoundly shaped by the religious communities that call it home. While the Freedom Trail commemorates many of the city’s earliest Christian influences, including Christ Church in the City of Boston...

Vern Barnet

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This profile was last updated in 2012.

It seems that the Rev. Vern Barnet has thought of everything. Barnet’s extensive website [1] provides innumerable multifaith resources and articles documenting over twenty years of interfaith activity in Greater...

Tom Duke

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This profile was last updated in 2012.

The Reverend Tom Duke seeks to “provide a visible center and point of contact” for organizing interfaith programming in the Twin Cities. Duke founded the Saint Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN) to do just that [1]...

Skyler Oberst

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This profile was last updated in 2012.

Although he just turned 21, Skyler Oberst is well-known in the Inland and Pacific Northwest interfaith community. Oberst co-founded the Compassionate Interfaith Society [1] and Friends of Compassion [2], served as...

Nancy Fuchs Kreimer

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This profile was last updated in 2012.

Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer knew that she wanted to be an interfaith educator before such a role existed. She recalls that in the 1970s, “We didn’t have those words. That wasn’t a career path. But that was what I...

Gagandeep Kaur

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This profile was last updated in 2012.

“Interfaith dialogue is not about similarities or differences, it’s about humanity. It’s about letting people be who they are.” Gagandeep Kaur’s involvement within the interfaith movement in San Diego is guided by...

Immigrant Religions in Germany (2005)

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Introduction Europe has witnessed a tremendous diversification of its religious landscape in the last thirty years. Yet, Europe has never been as monolithically Christian as most historical overviews tend to tell us. Jews, Muslims in the Balkans and...

City Profile: Wichita, KS (2012)

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Wichita, Kansas, 150 miles in any direction from the next major metropolitan area, may seem like an unlikely place to see the new religious landscape of America. Yet this center of trade and industry has a rich legacy of cultivating religious, ethnic, and...

City Profile: Washington, DC (2012)

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Pierre L’Enfant envisioned the nation’s capital in 1791, creating a plan that included a network of tree-lined streets, traffic circles, and monumental buildings, as well as a national place of worship, the National Cathedral. However, this French city...