A new religious America : how a "Christian country" has now become the world's most religiously diverse nation
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A new religious America : how a "Christian country" has now become the world's most religiously diverse nation
Harper San Francisco, c2001
- : cloth
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-398) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780060621582
Description
"The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world", Diana Eck writes in this eye-opening, de Toqueville-style guide to the religious realities of America today. Among her many observations she notes that - The 1990's saw the U.S.Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open the first mosque. Los Angeles is the most complex Buddhist city in the world. There are more Muslim Americans than there are Episcopalians, Presbyterians or Jews. Especially since the Immigration Act of 1965 and the subsequent economy based on foreign-born labour, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Zoroastrians, Jews and Catholics of all kinds have arrived from all over the world, building lives in the urban, suburban and rural communities of every region in the United States. Eck reveals how the world's religions are no longer on the other side of the world but right in the neighbourhoods. This new religious diversity is becoming more important than racial, ethnic or nationalistic ties, and will be a source of great social and cultural strength.
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: pbk ISBN 9780060621599
Description
Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us TodayThe 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world.There are more American Muslims than there are American Episcopalians, Jews, or Presbyterians.
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