A New Religious America - Hardcover

Eck, Diana L.

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ISBN 10: 0060621583 ISBN 13: 9780060621582

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001

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Challenging the still-prevelant idea that America is a "Christian Country," the author argues that the United States is currently a mecca of religious pluralism with the most religiously diverse population on earth.

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Review:

?Vivid writing?Diana Eck shows the way toward this nation's future.?James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword?A thought-provoking analysis of trends that will shape the United States for years to come.?Religious News Service?This excellent overview of America's exploding religious diversity doubles as an impassioned call to action.?Booklist?[An] intelligent introduction to religious life outside American churches and synagogues.?Wall Street Journal?A stunning tour de force that may forever change the way Americans claim to be ?one nation, under God.??Publishers Weekly (*Starred Review*)?There cannot be a wiser or more authoritative guide...rich, exciting, and illuminating.?Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God?A highly readable book...Diana Eck is an immensely well informed guide.?Harvey Cox, author of Fire from Heaven?Diana Eck is the country's best guide to America's new pluralism.?Alan Wolfe, Boisi Center for Religion and Public Life, Boston College, author of One Nation, After All?A thoroughly researched and lovingly written ethnography that tells us just what the subtitle promises.?Lauren Winner, Publishers Weekly?This is a book I recommend to everyone I see.Bill Moyers?This is more than a stuffy study. It's an ambitious survey that celebrates the country's growing religious diversity.?Steve Rabey, Religion News Service?A New Religious America challenges all Americans to embrace the astonishing religious diversity that now animates the nation.?Los Angeles Times?This picture of religious pluralism is...highly recommended.?Choice

"This is a book I recommend to everyone I see. -- Bill Moyers

"Vivid writing.Diana Eck shows the way toward this nation's future." -- James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword

"A thought-provoking analysis of trends that will shape the United States for years to come."--Religious News Service

"This picture of religious pluralism is...highly recommended."--Choice

"Vivid writing...Diana Eck shows the way toward this nation's future."--James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword

"This is more than a stuffy study. It's an ambitious survey that celebrates the country's growing religious diversity."--Steve Rabey, Religion News Service

"This excellent overview of America's exploding religious diversity doubles as an impassioned call to action."--Booklist

"A New Religious America challenges all Americans to embrace the astonishing religious diversity that now animates the nation."--Los Angeles Times

"[An] intelligent introduction to religious life outside American churches and synagogues."--Wall Street Journal

Synopsis:

"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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