LEADER 04659nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910814940603321 005 20220311015712.0 010 $a1-283-21254-4 010 $a9786613212542 010 $a1-4008-3724-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400837243 035 $a(CKB)2670000000106281 035 $a(EBL)742073 035 $a(OCoLC)745865983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000533913 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331187 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000533913 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493163 035 $a(PQKB)10947424 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001062682 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12357618 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062682 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11017465 035 $a(PQKB)11381973 035 $a(OCoLC)753700694 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43175 035 $a(DE-B1597)453601 035 $a(OCoLC)979582211 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400837243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL742073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491747 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC742073 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000106281 100 $a20070605d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica and the challenges of religious diversity /$fRobert Wuthnow 205 $a1st paperback ed. 210 $aPrinceton, NJ ;$aOxford $cPrinceton University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (412 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-11976-7 311 0 $a0-691-13411-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-370) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tTables --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Confronting Diversity --$t1. A Special People in a Diverse World --$t2. The New Diversity --$t3. The Significance of Religious Diversity --$t4. Embracing Diversity: Shopping in the Spiritual Marketplace --$t5. "Many Mansions": Accepting Diversity --$t6. "One Way": Resisting Diversity --$t7. The Public's Beliefs and Practices --$t8. How Congregations Manage Diversity --$t9. Negotiating Religiously Mixed Marriages --$t10. How Pluralistic Should We Be? --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMuslims, 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. 606 $aChristianity and other religions$zUnited States 606 $aCultural pluralism$zUnited States 606 $aReligious pluralism$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xReligion 615 0$aChristianity and other religions 615 0$aCultural pluralism 615 0$aReligious pluralism 676 $a201/.5/0973 700 $aWuthnow$b Robert$0882687 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814940603321 996 $aAmerica and the challenges of religious diversity$94093536 997 $aUNINA