Key Terms

• Interfaith – involving persons of different religious faiths
• Religion – a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices; a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
• Spiritual – of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomena
• Worldview – a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint
• Cult – formal religious veneration; great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work
• Religious Leader – leader of a religious order
• Spiritual Leader – a leader in religious or sacred affairs
• Interfaith Leader – people who create and foster opportunities for positive knowledge and opportunities for engagement move others around the interfaith triangle and lead to a community marked by pluralism
• Diversity – the condition of having or being composed of differing elements
• Pluralism – a state of society in which members of diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups maintain and develop their traditional culture or special interest within the confines of a common civilization
• Extreme(ist) – exceeding the ordinary, usual, or expected