Diana L. Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell House and Director of The Pluralism Project. As a Christian, she has also been involved in the United Methodist Church, the World Council of Churches, and the life of Harvard Divinity School. Her book Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras won the prestigious Grawemeyer Book Award. In 1998, President Clinton awarded her the National Humanities Medal for the work of The Pluralism Project in the investigation of America's religious diversity.
A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation
by Diana L. Eck
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- Publication date: 03/17/2009
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Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today
- The 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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America has become the most religiously diverse nation in the world, says author Diana L. Eck. Since the Immigration Act of 1965 eliminated quotas based on national origins -- which traditionally favored Judeo-Christian Europeans -- there has been an influx of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, and Zoroastrians, as well as new varieties of Catholics and Jews from all over the world. Many of these “new arrival” religions are unknown to most Americans. Here is a groundbreaking look at how all of these different faiths are thriving -- and interacting -- in the country today.
Harvey Cox
A highly readable book. . . Diana Eck is an immensely well informed guide.
James Carroll
Vivid writing. . . Diana Eck shows the way toward this nation's future.
Karen Armstrong
There cannot be a wiser or more authoritative guide. . . rich, exciting, and illuminating.
Steve Rabey
This is more than a stuffy study. It's an ambitious survey that celebrates the country's growing religious diversity.
Bill Moyers
This is a book I recommend to everyone I see.
Alan Wolfe
Diana Eck is the country's best guide to America's new pluralism.
Wall Street Journal
[An] intelligent introduction to religious life outside American churches and synagogues.
Los Angeles Times
A New Religious America challenges all Americans to embrace the astonishing religious diversity that now animates the nation.
Choice
This picture of religious pluralism is. . . highly recommended.
Religious News Service
A thought-provoking analysis of trends that will shape the United States for years to come.
Library Journal
America has always been a fundamentally Christian or "Judaeo-Christian" country with a few atheists and agnostics included. We're a secular, pluralist polity within that framework or so the received opinion goes. But in this wide-ranging book, Eck (religious studies, Harvard) shows us that this received opinion is erroneous. The framework is now, and in fact has always been, much broader. Eck discusses the history in America of three religious traditions with large numbers of adherents: Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Islam, she shows, arrived with African slaves. Buddhism and Hinduism came early as well, with the first Asian immigrants to the West Coast. These faiths are growing rapidly because of recent changes in our immigration laws and political turmoil in much of Asia, and thus our sense of religious pluralism needs to broaden. Well written and thorough, this volume will appeal especially to scholars, but casual readers will find much to enlighten them. Warmly recommended for both academic and public libraries. James F. DeRoche, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.