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The Process & Faith community is designed as a community of communities, inspired by the Pluralism Project Harvard University. Below are a variety of paths, intended as staging areas for interaction and collaboration among people of a particular faith tradition or multiple traditions. We encourage you to register here, and create your user profile, select any and all paths of faith in which you'd like to engage.

Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbean religions include a wide range of religious traditions that have roots in Africa, came to the islands of the Caribbean with African cap...

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Bahá’í

The Bahá’í Faith first took shape in 1863 when Bahá’u’lláh (1817-1892) declared himself a divine messenger and the messianic figure predicte...

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Buddhist

Buddhism is a multi-hued tradition of life, thought, and practice that has developed from the teaching and practice of Siddhartha Gautama (6th century...

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Christian

Christianity revolves around the person, teachings, and transformative work of Jesus of Nazareth, affirmed as Christ among us. It is global, diverse, ...

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Confucian

The Confucian tradition emphasizes the importance of following inherited rites (li) in a conscientious manner so that one can fully activate his or he...

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Daoist

The Daoist tradition incorporates a highly diverse range of philosophical, religious, and folk values and practices, all of which share a concern for ...

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Hindu

“Hindu” was originally a word given by the Greeks, then the Persians, to the land and peoples beyond the Indus or “Sindhu” River. The term “...

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Humanist

Humanism is a form of belief that values reason, compassion, and hope. Emphasis is placed on human concerns and that contributes to human flourishing....

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Interfaith

For those interested in interfaith dialogue and spirituality, and in working together to help foster Process & Faith's four core values (whole persons...

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Jain

The term Jain or Jaina refers to the tradition of the Jinas, the “victorious ones” who have won spiritual liberation, and to those who follow it. ...

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Jewish

Judaism is the worldview, the way of life, and the religious practice of the Jewish people, living in covenant with God and in response to Torah, the ...

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Muslim

Islam in Arabic literally means “submitting” or “submission.” One who submits or surrenders his or her will to God is called a Muslim. While t...

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Native American

Each of the many Native American nations has its own distinctive life-ways, although there are some widely-shared characteristics. most Native life-wa...

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Pagan

The term “pagan” (from the Latin paganus) originally meant “peasant” or “country dweller.” For many Pagans, the term suggests a life lived...

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Shintō

Shinto, the “way of the kami” refers to the indigenous Japanese religious traditions which focus on the worship of kami. Initially, rituals devote...

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Sikh

Sikhs call their tradition the “Sikh Panth,” meaning the “community (panth) of the disciples of the Guru.” The tradition reveres a lineage of ...

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Spiritually Independent

The spiritually independent, according to our friends at Spirituality & Practice, are "seekers without borders . . . drawn to wisdom wherever it may b...

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Unitarian Universalist

The Unitarian Universalist Association (uua.org) of some 1000 congregations (mostly in North America) was formed in 1961 by merger of the America Unit...

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Zoroastrian

Originating with the teachings of the Prophet Zarathushtra in the second millennium BCE, the ancient faith of Zoroastrianism is referred to as “the ...

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