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A nation of religions : the politics of pluralism in multireligious America / edited by Stephen Prothero.

Contributor(s): Prothero, Stephen R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 296 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 080785770X (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780807857700 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): United States -- Religion | Religious pluralism -- United States | Religion and politics -- United StatesDDC classification: 222.973/09051 LOC classification: BL2525 | .N36 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Stephen Prothero -- Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby -- Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi -- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ryûken Williams -- Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do -- Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Mr. President, why do you exclude us from your prayers? : Hindus challenge American pluralism / Prema A. Kurien -- Sacred land, sacred service : Hindu adaptations to the American landscape / Vasudha Narayanan -- Making home abroad : Sikhs in the United States / Gurinder Singh Mann -- From alleged Buddhists to unreasonable Hindus : First Amendment jurisprudence after 1965 / Courtney Bender and Jennifer Snow -- Agonistic federalism : the Alabama Ten Commandments controversy / Stephen Dawson -- The de-Europeanization of American Christianity / R. Stephen Warner -- Religious pluralism and civil society / James Davison Hunter and David Franz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Stephen Prothero -- Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby -- Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi -- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ryûken Williams -- Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do -- Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Mr. President, why do you exclude us from your prayers? : Hindus challenge American pluralism / Prema A. Kurien -- Sacred land, sacred service : Hindu adaptations to the American landscape / Vasudha Narayanan -- Making home abroad : Sikhs in the United States / Gurinder Singh Mann -- From alleged Buddhists to unreasonable Hindus : First Amendment jurisprudence after 1965 / Courtney Bender and Jennifer Snow -- Agonistic federalism : the Alabama Ten Commandments controversy / Stephen Dawson -- The de-Europeanization of American Christianity / R. Stephen Warner -- Religious pluralism and civil society / James Davison Hunter and David Franz.

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