A nation of religions : the politics of pluralism in multireligious America

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A nation of religions : the politics of pluralism in multireligious America

edited by Stephen Prothero

University of North Carolina Press, 2006

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-281) and index

収録内容
  • Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby
  • Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi
  • From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ryken Williams
  • Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do
  • Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A. F. Thurman
  • Mr. President, why do you exclude us from your prayers? : Hindus challenge American pluralism / Prema A. Kurien
  • Sacred land, sacred service : Hindu adaptations to the American landscape / Vasudha Narayanan
  • Making home abroad : Sikhs in the United States / Gurinder Singh Mann
  • From alleged Buddhists to unreasonable Hindus : First Amendment jurisprudence after 1965 / Courtney Bender and Jennifer Snow
  • Agonistic federalism : the Alabama Ten commandments controversy / Stephen Dawson
  • The de-Europeanization of American Christianity / R. Stephen Warner
  • Religious pluralism and civil society / James Davison Hunter and David Franz
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: cloth ISBN 9780807830529

内容説明

The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four recently arrived religious communities - Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs - are shaping and, in turn, being shaped by American values. For a generation, scholars have been documenting how the landmark legislation that loosened immigration restrictions in 1965 catalyzed the development of the United States as "a nation of Buddhists, Confucianists, and Taoists, as well as Christians," as Supreme Court Justice, Tom Clark put it. The contributors to this volume take U.S. religious diversity not as a proposition to be proved but as the truism it has become. Essays address not whether the United States is a Christian or a multireligious nation - clearly, it is both - but how religious diversity is changing the public values, rites, and institutions of the nation and how those values, rites, and institutions are affecting religions that are centuries old yet relatively new in America. This conversation makes an important contribution to the intensifying public debate about the appropriate role of religion in American politics and society.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780807857700

内容説明

The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four recently arrived religious communities - Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs - are shaping and, in turn, being shaped by American values. For a generation, scholars have been documenting how the landmark legislation that loosened immigration restrictions in 1965 catalyzed the development of the United States as ""a nation of Buddhists, Confucianists, and Taoists, as well as Christians,"" as Supreme Court Justice, Tom Clark put it. The contributors to this volume take U.S. religious diversity not as a proposition to be proved but as the truism it has become. Essays address not whether the United States is a Christian or a multireligious nation - clearly, it is both - but how religious diversity is changing the public values, rites, and institutions of the nation and how those values, rites, and institutions are affecting religions that are centuries old yet relatively new in America. This conversation makes an important contribution to the intensifying public debate about the appropriate role of religion in American politics and society.

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