Readings in American Religious Diversity
Author | : Jon R. Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08-30 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781465274489 |
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Author | : Jon R. Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08-30 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781465274489 |
Author | : Walter H. Conser |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820319186 |
The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should be developed. Full of provocative insights into the complexity of American religion, this volume helps us better understand America's religious history and its future challenges and directions.
Author | : Kathleen M. Goodman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2023-07-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000980545 |
This book arises out of a recognition that student affairs professionals have little preparation or guidance in dealing with matters of spirituality, religion, secularity, and interfaith work at a time of greater diversity in students’ beliefs and, from a broad recognition that there is a need to engage with this aspect of student life. For those who don’t know how to begin and may be nervous about tackling a topic that has the potential to lead to heated disagreements, this book provides the resources and practical guidance to undertake this work.With the aim of providing student affairs practitioners and faculty with the tools they need to increase their comfort level and enable their ability to engage in discussions about belief both in and out of the classroom, the contributors provide foundational knowledge, concrete teaching ideas, sample activities, and case studies that can be used in a variety of settings. This book serves multiple audiences in student affairs by providing teaching ideas for practitioners who want to include a session or two about interfaith in their programs as well as ideas for student affairs faculty who may be teaching one session on this topic or a whole course. The book is divided into four sections. The first offers context, provides the findings of research, and asks readers to reflect on the framework they use to embark on this work, whether a social justice framework that aims to highlight issues of power and privilege or an interfaith cooperation framework that aims to create religious pluralism. Part Two provides concrete ideas for creating courses, activities, events, and programs focused on spirituality, religion, secularity, and interfaith engagement, as well as ideas for incorporating these topics into courses typically offered in student affairs preparation programs. Part Three presents case studies to engage students, practitioners, and faculty in thinking about campus situations related to religious diversity. Part Four provides some basic information about a variety of religions and worldviews held by college students.
Author | : Robert Wuthnow |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400837243 |
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we "respect" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism? Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity. The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.
Author | : Eboo Patel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691196818 |
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.
Author | : David Basinger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351904698 |
Religious diversity exists whenever seemingly sincere, knowledgeable individuals hold incompatible beliefs on the same religious issue. Diversity of this sort is pervasive, existing not only across basic theistic systems but also within these theistic systems themselves. Religious Diversity explores the breadth and significance of such conflict. Examining the beliefs of various theistic systems, particularly within Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism, Basinger discusses seemingly incompatible claims about many religious issues, including the nature of God and the salvation of humankind. He considers particularly the work of Hick, Gellman, Plantinga, Schellenberg, Alston, Wainwright, and Quinn, applying their perspectives on 'exclusivism' and 'pluralism' as they become relevant to the issues in question. Basinger's survey of the relevant literature, proposed solutions, and fresh insights offer an invaluable contribution not only for philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians but for anyone interested in the increasingly significant question of what a religious believer can or cannot justifiably say about their religious perspective.
Author | : Maurianne Adams |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780415926348 |
These essays include writings from Cornel West, Michael Omi, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua and Michelle Fine. The essays address the multiplicity and scope of oppressions ranging from ableism to racism and other less-well known social aberrations.
Author | : Charles L. Cohen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199931925 |
Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.
Author | : Larry Murphy |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2000-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814755801 |
Explains the history and development of African American religion and theology from the time of slavery until the 21st century.
Author | : Charles H. Lippy |
Publisher | : JBE Online Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 0980163358 |