By Diana L. Eck
Why realizing America's spiritual panorama Is crucial problem dealing with Us Today
- The Nineteen Nineties observed the U.S. army fee its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.
- There are shortly greater than 300 temples in la, domestic to the best number of Buddhists within the world.
- There are extra American Muslims than there are American Episcopalians, Jews, or Presbyterians.
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