A developed the Pluralism Project, which she has directed at Harvard for the past ten years. She is also the author of A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. Originally issued in hardcover by Harper San Francisco, it is being released in paperback this spring. Through the study of religious communities such as Sikhs, Jains, Muslims, Bahai's, and Buddhists—all relatively new to the United States—the project has tracked the ways in which American religious life has changed and how it is dealing with both diversity and pluralism in other aspects of religious life.
She spoke with of the Journal about ways in which interfaith efforts can lead to spiritual progress for local communities and the world.
Do you see greater efforts to cross denominational lines among the groups you've studied?
