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BALTIMORE (RNS) — At a table with other University of Maryland students and campus leaders, Keven Guruswamy, a senior psychology major and Seventh-day Adventist, held up a photograph of his collection of Bibles arranged on a shelf.

Some of the Bibles were in Tamil, others in English. Some he acquired himself and others were gifts, including from his grandmother, who has since died. He said his experience growing up in a religiously mixed family — which includes Hindus and Christians — introduced him to “the beauty of interfaith cooperation.”

The photo was one of several Guruswamy brought to a two-day retreat in mid-October as part of “ Picturing Pluralism ,” a semester-long photography and dialogue project bringing together about 30 University of Maryland Baltimore County students and 10 faculty and staff.…