A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation

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

• Author: Diana L. Eck
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Published: 2009-03-17
• Pages: 740
• ISBN-13: 9780061750281