Out of many faiths : religious diversity and the american promise / Eboo Patel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patel, Eboo, author.

Series:

Our compelling interests (Series) 8

Our Compelling Interests ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today's volatile climate of religious conflict and distrust, how do we affirm that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how each of us engages with people of different beliefs? Eboo Patel, former faith adviser to Barack Obama, provides answers to this timely question. In this thought-provoking book, Patel draws on his personal experience as a Muslim in America to examine the importance of religious diversity in the nation's cultural, political, and economic life. He explores how religious language has given the United States some of its most enduring symbols and inspired its most vital civic institutions-and demonstrates how the genius of the American experiment lies in its empowerment of all people.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Religious Diversity and the American Promise

2. Cordoba House

3. The Islamophobia Industry in the White House

4. Toward an Interfaith America

5. The American Ummah in the era of Islamophobia

6. IMAN

7. Postscript: Potluck Nation

Commentaries

8. The challenge of Pluralism after the end of White christian America / Jones, Robert P.

9. Hope without a common good / Inazu, John

10. Plural America Needs Myths: An Essay in Foundational Narratives in Response to Eboo Patel / Patton, Laurie L.

Notes

Index

Discussion Questions

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

Originally published: 2018. Reprint with added discussion questions.

Includes discussion questions.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780691196961

0691196966

OCLC:

1109725326