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32nd Annual ICNA-MAS Convention (2007)
On the first weekend of July, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Muslim American Society (MAS) held their 32nd annual three-day national convention in Hartford, Connecticut. Both ICNA and MAS are non-profit national Muslim associations with...

Air Force Academy Addresses "Challenges to Pluralism" (2005)
Since July 2004, the United States Air Force Academy has been under various forms of investigation – ranging from internal surveys to the involvement of Pentagon officials – for charges of religious discrimination. From these investigations, it is alleged...

America's National Day of Prayer (2006)
On May 4, 2006, Americans across the nation came together to celebrate the National Day of Prayer. The first Thursday in May was marked by Congress in 1952 as a date to “turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals.” [1]...

American Muslim Music (2007)
Islamic worship is rooted in oral and aural experience. Qur’an in Arabic means recitation; the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad is not a text to be read silently, but a text to be recited and listened to by believers. The first...

Amina Wadud (2005)
The Woman-Led Prayer that Catalyzed Controversy On March 18, 2005, Dr. Amina Wadud made waves when she led Muslim prayers in New York City, a ritual almost always reserved for men. Wadud is an African-American activist and a professor of Islamic studies...

Archived: Statistics by Tradition (2004)
This is working document that compiled statistics from numerous sources and was last updated in 2004. Please click here for more current statistical information. Resources Afro-Caribbean Atheism and Non-Religious Philosophies Baha'i Buddhism Christianity...

Baccalaureate Services and Pluralism (2005)
The renewal of baccalaureate services in colleges and universities across the country has been met with increasingly diverse student populations. The manners in which schools approach this growing plurality of religious faiths are as diverse as the...

Boston Ten Civic Practices (2006)
Boston is a microcosm of religious diversity and civic engagement in the United States. This list of ten religious practices for civic engagement was compiled from a two-year search of Boston Globe articles relating to religious diversity and civic...