Out of Many Faiths : : Religious Diversity and the American Promise / / Eboo Patel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Patel, Eboo,
• MitwirkendeR: Inazu, John,; Jones, Robert P.,; Patton, Laurie L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Our Compelling Interests ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 b/w illus.

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.

Table of 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 -- 9. Hope without a common good -- 10. Plural America Needs Myths: An Essay in Foundational Narratives in Response to Eboo Patel -- Notes -- Index -- Discussion Questions