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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461330103321

Autore

Wuthnow Robert

Titolo

America and the challenges of religious diversity [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Wuthnow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ ; ; Oxford, : Princeton University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-283-21254-4

9786613212542

1-4008-3724-3

Edizione

[1st paperback ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Disciplina

201/.5/0973

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions - United States

Cultural pluralism - United States

Religious pluralism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-370) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction. Confronting Diversity -- 1. A Special People in a Diverse World -- 2. The New Diversity -- 3. The Significance of Religious Diversity -- 4. Embracing Diversity: Shopping in the Spiritual Marketplace -- 5. "Many Mansions": Accepting Diversity -- 6. "One Way": Resisting Diversity -- 7. The Public's Beliefs and Practices -- 8. How Congregations Manage Diversity -- 9. Negotiating Religiously Mixed Marriages -- 10. How Pluralistic Should We Be? -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 "respect" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism? Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his



characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity. The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220018203321

Autore

Lozach Pierre-Yves

Titolo

Recent Progress in Bunyavirus Research / Pierre-Yves Lozach, Jane Tao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2017

ISBN

9783038423928

3038423920

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (VIII, 224 p.)

Soggetti

Biology, life sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Recent Progress in Bunyavirus Research