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| Resource: | Books (580.3400) Sacred Ground : Pluralism, prejudice, and the Promise of America |
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| Author: | Patel, Eboo | |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press (MA), 2012 | |
| Length: | 192 pages | |
| Heading: | 235 — Social Justice | |
| Subjects: | Interfaith Dialog; Islam / Relations; Prejudices; Religions / Relations; Religious pluralism / United States | |
| Location: | BL2525 .P36 2012 | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780807077481 | |
| Description: | There is no better time to stand up for your values than when they are under attack. After 9/11, then-President Bush declared that Islam was a religion of peace, making a clear distinction between an act of terrorism and a religion. But in recent years, anti-Islamic sentiment has been growing in the U.S., stoked by pastors, politicians, and pundits from Pamela Gellar to Newt Gingrich. The implication of their rhetoric is clear: being Muslim is somehow incompatible with being an American. In Sacred Ground, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel reminds us that religious tolerance, as well as religious prejudice, has been with us since the colonial era. And over time, many once-despised groups, like Catholics, have come to be seen as part of the American mainstream. But we live today in an ever more religiously diverse country, and it is increasingly important to actively foster interfaith cooperation in order to prevent violence. How then, Patel asks, in this critical moment, we can best promote interfaith understanding and cooperation? Explaining the growing science of interfaith cooperation, Patel interweaves ideas with stories of Christians and Muslims and Jews and Buddhists working to build bridges among their communities and dispel fear and ignorance. He asks us to share in his vision of a better America -- a robustly pluralistic country in which our commonalities are more important than our differences, and in which difference enriches, rather than threatens, our religious traditions. Sacred Ground demonstrates how we can all work in service of positive social change in our daily lives and offers an inspiring call for us to take responsibility and help make America a beacon of pluralism - because ultimately, we are all at the frontlines of social change. As Patel writes, "I believe every inch of America is sacred ground. I believe we make it holy by who we welcome and how we relate to each other." |
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| Age Groups: | None specified. |
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