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

Why realizing America's spiritual 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 shortly greater than 300 temples in la, domestic to the best number of Buddhists on this planet.

The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

A hugely unique and scholarly paintings on spirituality by way of famous historian Mircea Eliade  In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that whereas modern humans think their international is solely profane, or secular, they nonetheless every now and then locate themselves attached unconsciously to the reminiscence of anything sacred.

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

Reports of African-derived spiritual traditions have ordinarily fascinated with 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 research Stewart indicates that African humans were brokers in their personal spiritual, 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 issues of spiritual distinction. Many americans discovered not just that non-Muslims have to examine extra approximately Islam, but additionally that Muslims needs to greater comprehend and articulate their very own religion to themselves and others.