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

Harper San Francisco, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! FIRST EDITION. MILD WEAR ON DUSTJACKET, MARK ON BOTTOM EDGE, NO MARKS IN TEXT. Description: "The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world," leading religious scholar Diana Eck writes in this eye-opening guide to the religious realities of America today. The Immigration Act of 1965 eliminated the quotas linking immigration to national origins. Since then, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Jams, Zoroastrians, and new varieties of Jews and Catholics have arrived from every part of the globe, radically altering the religious landscape of the United States. Members of the world's religions live not just on the other side of the world but in our neighborhoods; Hindu children go to school with Jewish children; Muslims, Buddhists, and Sikhs work side-by-side with Protestants and Catholics.