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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today Diana L. Eck examines why the post-1965 arrival of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities represents an unprecedented transformation of the nation's religious landscape. Her analysis traces how these living traditions established roots across cities and towns throughout the United States. From Nashville to Pittsburgh, new Hindu temples rise on suburban hillsides, while Ohio cornfields frame minarets and California suburbs house expansive Buddhist complexes. The study investigates how civic institutions and new communities negotiate this challenge through local zoning hearings, workplace disputes, and public school classrooms. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today Diana L. Eck examines why the post-1965 arrival of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities represents an unprecedented transformation of the nation's religious landscape. Her analysis traces how these living traditions established roots across cities and towns throughout the United States. From Nashville to Pittsburgh, new Hindu temples rise on suburban hillsides, while Ohio cornfields frame minarets and California suburbs house expansive Buddhist complexes. The study investigates how civic institutions and new communities negotiate this challenge through local zoning hearings, workplace disputes, and public school classrooms. 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. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today Diana L. Eck examines why the post-1965 arrival of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities represents an unprecedented transformation of the nation's religious landscape. Her analysis traces how these living traditions established roots across cities and towns throughout the United States. From Nashville to Pittsburgh, new Hindu temples rise on suburban hillsides, while Ohio cornfields frame minarets and California suburbs house expansive Buddhist complexes. The study investigates how civic institutions and new communities negotiate this challenge through local zoning hearings, workplace disputes, and public school classrooms. 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. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Darsan is a Sanskrit word that means seeing, used in particular to describe a visual experience of the divine in an image, a person or a set of ideas. This work looks at this element of Hindu religion, focusing on sculpture, temples, symbols and great spiritual figures.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, particularly the increasing presence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today's interdependent world--globally, nationally, and even locally. She reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, particularly the increasing presence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today's interdependent world--globally, nationally, and even locally. She reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, particularly the increasing presence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today's interdependent world--globally, nationally, and even locally. She reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, particularly the increasing presence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today's interdependent world--globally, nationally, and even locally. She reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today Diana L. Eck examines why the post-1965 arrival of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities represents an unprecedented transformation of the nation's religious landscape. Her analysis traces how these living traditions established roots across cities and towns throughout the United States. From Nashville to Pittsburgh, new Hindu temples rise on suburban hillsides, while Ohio cornfields frame minarets and California suburbs house expansive Buddhist complexes. The study investigates how civic institutions and new communities negotiate this challenge through local zoning hearings, workplace disputes, and public school classrooms. 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. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today Diana L. Eck examines why the post-1965 arrival of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities represents an unprecedented transformation of the nation's religious landscape. Her analysis traces how these living traditions established roots across cities and towns throughout the United States. From Nashville to Pittsburgh, new Hindu temples rise on suburban hillsides, while Ohio cornfields frame minarets and California suburbs house expansive Buddhist complexes. The study investigates how civic institutions and new communities negotiate this challenge through local zoning hearings, workplace disputes, and public school classrooms. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today Diana L. Eck examines why the post-1965 arrival of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities represents an unprecedented transformation of the nation's religious landscape. Her analysis traces how these living traditions established roots across cities and towns throughout the United States. From Nashville to Pittsburgh, new Hindu temples rise on suburban hillsides, while Ohio cornfields frame minarets and California suburbs house expansive Buddhist complexes. The study investigates how civic institutions and new communities negotiate this challenge through local zoning hearings, workplace disputes, and public school classrooms. 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. …