Associate Professor of Anthropology Claude Jacobs and his colleague Bill McNeece have been invited to be part of a panel discussion and to display UM-Dearborn's Pluralism Project photographs at an international conference on religious diversity to be held October 6-11 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The first Peninsular Malaysia Conference on Ecumenical and Interreligious Ministry hopes to be a common platform bringing together Catholic organizations and individuals who are already engaged in or are interested to start interreligious and ecumenical programs, activities and ministries within the three Roman Catholic arch/dioceses of Peninsular Malaysia. Professors Jacobs and McNeece will be part of a panel discussion on "Religious Pluralsim in America: The case of multicultural diversty in Detroit."
In conjunction with this conference, the Archdiocesan Ministry of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs will be hosting the Photography Exhibition of "World Religions in Metropolitan Detroit." This is an exhibition of 32 panels containing photographs and text, presenting the ongoing research of the Pluralism Project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The exhibition shows the diversity of Metropolitan Detroit's religious landscape: Islamic mosques, Native American spirituality, Baha'i gathering places, Mandaean mandi, Sikh gurdwaras, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, and Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples. The text panels provide brief histories and descriptions of the religions, and a metropolitan area map (approximately 4' x 4') shows where the religious centers are located.