Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation / Eboo Patel.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2007.Description: xix, 189 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780807077269 (acidfree paper)
- 0807077267 (acidfree paper)
- 9780807077276 (pbk.)
- 0807077275 (pbk.)
- Patel, Eboo, 1975-
- Interfaith Youth Core
- Muslims -- United States -- Biography
- East Indian Americans -- Biography
- Muslims -- United States -- Ethnic identity
- Cultural pluralism -- United States
- Youth -- Religious life -- United States
- Religions -- Relations
- United States -- Ethnic relations
- United States -- Religious life and customs
- 305.6/97089914073 22
- B 22
- E184.M88 P38 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189).
Introduction: The faith line -- The crossroads of the identity crisis -- Growing up American, growing up other -- Identity politics -- Real world activism -- An American in India -- The story of Islam, the story of pluralism -- The youth programs of religious totalitarians (or tribal religion, transcendent religion) -- Building the Interfaith Youth Core -- Conclusion: Saving each other, saving ourselves.
The author, a young American Muslim of Indian background, juxtaposes his college years as an angry young radical with a description of how he came to see the possibilities of religious pluralism and founded the Interfaith Youth Core.
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