Eboo Patel, author and founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international not-for-profit organization that promotes interfaith cooperation, will present a free, public lecture titled “The Faith Line: The Need for a Different Conversation on Religion” Feb. 22 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Florida State University Student Life Building, rooms A and B.
An American Muslim of Indian heritage, Patel is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. He is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs, and serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation and the Advisory Board of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center.
Patel earned a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.
A reception and book signing will precede the lecture at 9:30 a.m. The lecture is sponsored by the FSU College of Social Sciences, arranged by the Claude Pepper Center for Intercultural Dialogue and funded by the Shepard and Ruth K. Broad International Lecture Series.
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