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A New Religious America

How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation

by Diana L. Eck ยท 2009

ISBN: 006175028X 9780061750281

Category: Religion / Comparative Religion

Page count: 434

<p>Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today</p><ul><li>The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.</li><li>There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world.</li><li>There are more American Muslims than there are American Episcopalians, Jews, or Presbyterians.</li></ul>