Out of Many Faiths

Religious Diversity and the American Promise

Eboo Patel

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780691196817
• eBook ISBN: 9780691196961
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identity

America is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today's volatile climate of religious conflict and distrust, how do we affirm that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how each of us engages with people of different beliefs? Eboo Patel, former faith adviser to Barack Obama, provides answers to this timely question. In this thought-provoking book, Patel draws on his personal experience as a Muslim in America to examine the importance of religious diversity in the nation's cultural, political, and economic life. He explores how religious language has given the United States some of its most enduring symbols and inspired its most vital civic institutions—and demonstrates how the genius of the American experiment lies in its empowerment of all people.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Religious Diversity and the American Promise
• 2. Cordoba House
• 3. The Islamophobia Industry in the White House
• 4. Toward an Interfaith America
• 5. The American Ummah in the Era of Islamophobia
• 6. IMAN
• 7. Postscript: Potluck Nation
• Commentaries
• Notes
• Index
• Discussion Questions
• Series List