In his memoir, Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel chronicles the life journey that led him to found the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core in 1998, which brings together thousands of youth in a spirit of pluralism. Patel describes his youth and early adulthood as he sought to forge an identity as an American that did not compromise the Ismaili Muslim tradition of his family. Patel demonstrates that this struggle of identity formation, common among youth born in America to immigrant families, leads some to religious extremism and others to pluralism. The purpose of the Interfaith Youth Core, then, is to combat religious extremism among America’s youth through engagement and service — and commitment to pluralism.
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