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St. Olaf College

Interfaith Leadership in the 21^st Century Workplace

Developing a knowledge base/radar screen around issues of religious diversity

Eboo Patel

Founder & President, IFYC

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Faith is Differentially Important � in the Lives of Americans

Source: Pew Research Center, “Religious Landscape Study” (2014)

Faith-Inspired Financial Support

Source: The Bridgespan Group

The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing

By 2050, the number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.
Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.
The global Buddhist population will be about the same size it was in 2010, while the Hindu and Jewish populations will be larger than they are today.
India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia.
In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.

-Pew Research Center, April 2, 2015

Most students are not gaining the�necessary knowledge to navigate a�religiously diverse country.

“Religious practice is one of the protected characteristics that cannot be accorded disparate treatment and must be accommodated.”

~US Supreme Court, June 1, 2015

~Samantha Elauf

“The more we listened, the more possibility we saw to serve female athletes in new dimensions.”

~Martha Moore, Nike Creative Director, VP