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America and the challenges of religious diversity /
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Confronting diversity
- 1. A special people in a diverse world
- First encounters
- Toward a new nation
- From missions to comparative religion
- The Tripartite settlement
- Beyond Christian America?
- 2. The new diversity
- American Hindus
- American Buddhists
- American Muslims
- Living among Christians
- Pluralism or coexistence?
- 3. The significance of religious diversity
- A threat to democracy?
- Fairness and decency
- Challenges to American values
- Religion as moral order
- 4. Embracing diversity : shopping in the spiritual marketplace
- Trev Granger's story
- Becoming a spiritual shopper
- The shopping mentality
- Toward a new consciousness?
- 5. "Many mansions" : accepting diversity
- Sandra Michaelson : beauty in every religion
- Coming to terms Coming to terms with diversity
- How to be an inclusive Christian
- Envisioning an inclusive society
- 6. "One way" : resisting diversity
- Trisha Mobley : "it is written"
- The road to resistance
- Maintaining an exclusivist worldview
- The social implications of Christian exclusivism
- 7. The public's beliefs and practices
- Beliefs about religious truth
- Views of America
- The impact of non-Western religions
- Social and cultural factors
- Interreligious contact and attitudes
- Interreligious programs
- Conclusions
- 8. How congregations manage diversity
- What churches are doing
- The role of theology
- Strategies of avoidance
- Strategies of engagement
- The imprint of pluralism
- Beyond insularity?
- 9. Negotiating religiously mixed marriages
- Falling in love
- Negotiating with religious authorities
- The parsing of practices
- Disaggregating religious identities
- The normalization of diversity
- From religion to culture
- 10. How pluralistic should we be?
- Reflective pluralism
- The case for cooperation
- An effort to promote understanding
- Multiple models
- Why interreligious efforts fail
- How interreligious efforts succeed
- What else needs to be done
- Extrapolating to other kinds of diversity
- The challenges ahead.