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Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America
Viking Adult
August 2008
On Sale: July 31, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0670019569
EAN: 9780670019564
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Religion
A bracing rejoinder both to religious fanaticism and to
recent books decrying religion
The United States
is the most religiously diverse nation in the world and the
most religiously diverse collection of people in history.
And even in this age of increasing religious violence, there
is a growing movement of cooperation: thousands of devout
worshippers who are willing to take a gamble on people of
radically different faiths.
In this insightful,
deeply felt examination of the nature of community and
religion, former New York Times religion reporter
Gustav Niebuhr traces the roots of religious freedom in
America and the setbacks and triumphs it has encountered
along the way. From Hindus and Quakers in Queens to
Catholics and Jews in Baltimore, to black Baptists and
Catholics in Louisville, to Catholics and Buddhists in Los
Angeles, Niebuhr focuses on the ways people build ties
between groups. He looks at why this movement is a
particularly American endeavor and how it can save us all.
Beyond Tolerance is a handbook for religious
cooperation in our fractured times.
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