From Interfaith Leadership, by Eboo Patel, chapter 1, “The Identity of ... Acts of Faith, my first book, is a longer, more developed story of my personal journey to interfaith leadership. Eboo Patel learns firsthand what it’s like to lose your identity, lose faith in your government, and find out the negativity that can encompass a person’s very core. In Sacred Ground Eboo Patel takes us deeper into the cause. Patel says that the individual’s identity is formed from their experiences and from the members of the older generation who guide them. Eboo's Path Eboo freefall stopped once he discovered the YMCA. ... -Dalai told Eboo that Muslim was a good religion … Erin Savino 11 – 18 – 13 RSOC 9 Prof. Riley Monday Reflection: Acts of Faith Ch. With his mom working Eboo had to go to the YMCA for after school care and summer camp. Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel. He speaks here as a Muslim as well as an interfaith leader. Start studying Acts of Faith REL 100 Quiz. Acts of Faith frankly discusses the appeal of religious fundamentalism to young people, observing that young people’s spiritual hunger As a consequence, Patel made the Catholic Worker house his own “community.” He found those in the movement to be, in his words, “more radical than the Marxist intellectuals I knew, more gentle than the social service types I volunteered with, more intelligent that the professors who taught my classes, and more effective than the activists I protested with” (p. 52). Literary Devices. As with Acts of Faith this is a deeply personal book, as the author tells his own story of engagement. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Erin Savino 11 – 11 – 13 RSOC 9 Monday Reflection: Acts of Faith Ch.1 – 2 In this section of Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel discusses the issue of identity, especially in regard to the younger generation. He writes for the Washington Post and is a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. Eboo Patel’s story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people—and of the world-changing potential of an interfaith youth movement. His message is clear – there is room for both holding strongly to one’s own faith tradition and building bridges of cooperation. He found out that it did not matter if he was a Muslim at the YMCA because people As I read that book now, it is clear to me that I was intuitively writing in the narrative structure I outline here, although I did He found out at the YMCA people cared about him. 6 In Chapter 6: The Story of Islam, the Story of Pluralism of Acts of Faith Eboo Patel discusses his time at Oxford, his work with the Interfaith Youth Core, and the discovery of his faith in Islam. Eboo Patel is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. "Acts of Faith" is Patel’s personal story of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago as a second generation Muslim immigrant from India. In this chapter Patel personally identifies himself as a Muslim. 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