America’s New Religious Diversity
A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation by Diana L. Eck |
Before 1965, we could conceive of ourselves as mainly a Christian nation, demographically speaking, but the influx of people of radically different religions and conversion of others to those religions — Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism — has resulted in two kinds of change: first, that these religions are changing American, and second, that America is changing the religions, evolving in a climate of diversity and freedom.
Harvard professor Diana Eck also discusses the legal case history of religious diversity in America, the rise of religiously-motivated hate crimes, and positive steps many communities have taken to foster and celebrate pluralism.
Tags: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, world religions Posted in: Books, Religion/Philosophy