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

• Autore: Wuthnow Robert
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ ; ; Oxford, : Princeton University Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st paperback ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.5/0973
• Soggetto topico: Christianity and other religions - United States; Cultural pluralism - United States; Religious pluralism - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-370) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: America and the challenges of religious diversity
• ISBN: 1-283-21254-4; 9786613212542; 1-4008-3724-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789516503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II