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A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation

Why knowing America's non secular panorama Is an important problem dealing with Us TodayThe Nineties observed the U. S. army fee its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque. There are almost immediately greater than 300 temples in la, domestic to the best number of Buddhists on the earth.

The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

A hugely unique and scholarly paintings on spirituality via famous historian Mircea Eliade  In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that whereas modern humans think their global is completely profane, or secular, they nonetheless from time to time locate themselves attached unconsciously to the reminiscence of whatever sacred.

Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience

Stories of African-derived spiritual traditions have more often than not interested by their retention of African components. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways that groups within the African diaspora have created and shaped non secular that means. during this fieldwork-based learn Stewart indicates that African humans were brokers in their personal non secular, ritual, and theological formation.

Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue

The assaults of September eleven, 2001 immediately heightened the yankee public's sensitivity towards concerns of non secular distinction. Many american citizens discovered not just that non-Muslims have to study extra approximately Islam, but in addition that Muslims needs to larger comprehend and articulate their very own religion to themselves and others.