Out of Many Faiths - Religious Diversity and the American Promise

Zusatztext "Patel is the best of what this country makes: a person of faith with a heart as big as his mind." -Ayad Akhtar! Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced Informationen zum Autor Eboo Patel Klappentext The former faith adviser to Barack Obama 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. A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identity Zusammenfassung A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identity America 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.

Product details

• Authors: Eboo Patel, Patel Eboo
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780691196817
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19681-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Our Compelling Interests; Our Compelling Interests, 8
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Religion and Politics, Civil rights & citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Civics and citizenship, Religious & theocratic ideologies