A Lively Experiment

A Multireligious Historical Overview of Rhode Island



Photo © 2003 The Pluralism Project



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Not only has the arrival and settlement of new religious immigrants been significant to their communities and to the global and historical development of their traditions, but their presence in Rhode Island is also having lasting impacts on the already established religious groups that greeted them. Interfaith bodies such as the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, under the direction of its Executive Minister, The Reverend John Holt, have begun to broaden the scope of their membership and ministry to include or collaborate with these new religious communities. The State Council of Churches, which is considering changing its name to "Interfaith Rhode Island," looks forward to creating increased partnerships with its new religious neighbors—such as with Muslim communities to establish "Peace Zones" in troubled areas of Providence.



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A close-up of the dome of the Rhode Island State Capitol Building in Providence, Rhode Island. The inscription below the dome comes from Rhode Island's colonial charter, issued by England's King Charles I to Roger Williams in 1663, that reiterated the intention for which Williams founded his colony: "To hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments."