"A broader sense of 'we'"

Connie K. Chung

Recently, scholars have noted that multicultural societies have the challenge of constructing nation-states that reflect and incorporate the diversity of their citizens while promoting an overarching set of shared values, ideals, and goals to which all of their citizens are committed (Gutmann, 2004). In such a context, this study views an interfaith community organizing group, The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), as a place for adult multicultural, interfaith civic education. It builds on the research conducted on community organizing and civic education and explores the individual and structural factors that impact people of faith to engage in interfaith community organizing and solve shared problems. Building on the qualifying paper I wrote about the external and internal factors that contributed to Protestant and Catholic congregational leaders' engagement in...