The Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence 2005 Summer Institute is hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara and has been funded by a grant from the Department of State's Study of the U.S. Branch. The program will run from June 18, 2005 to August 1, 2005. Participants are foreign scholars from eighteen countries. Scholars will be introduced to religious pluralism in the American context through lectures, readings, discussions, films, panels and field visits.