America's New Religious Diversity

A New Religious America:
How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation

by Diana L. Eck

eck_new_religious_america.jpgBefore 1965, we could conceive of ourselves as mainly a Christian nation, demographically speaking, but the influx of people of radically different religions and conversion of others to those religions -- Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism -- has resulted in two kinds of change: first, that these religions are changing American, and second, that America is changing the religions, evolving in a climate of diversity and freedom.

Harvard professor Diana Eck also discusses the legal case history of religious diversity in America, the rise of religiously-motivated hate crimes, and positive steps many communities have taken to foster and celebrate pluralism.

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