Eboo Patel is the Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core, an organisation that promotes mutual respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions. The 34-year-old Rhodes scholar also advises United States President Barack Obama, who appointed him a member of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in February 2009.
TheIsmaili.org spoke with Patel to gain a better understanding of the work that he does and the vision that he espouses.
In the first of this two-part series, Eboo Patel explains his motivations for working towards religious pluralism. Video excerpts of a talk that he delivered at The Institute of Ismaili Studies in December 2009 accompany the interview.
Interview with video at the source: The Ismaili: The shared value of religious pluralism — A conversation with Eboo Patel (Part 1).
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