Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,3 (1992) 370-382
Schlagwort(e):
Jews History 1945-
;
Muslims History 20th century
Kurzfassung:
Discusses the current "restructuring of American religion" towards the inclusion of Islam and other minority faiths into the American religious mainstream. States that the traditional idea of Christian (i.e. Protestant) America which evolved in the 1930s into the concept of the Judeo-Christian (i.e. Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish) nation, giving equal footing and recognition to Jews after a long exclusion, is now questioned and perceived as exclusivist by the U.S. Muslim community. From a Jewish perspective, the inclusion of the Muslim community, hostile to Israel, into the American religious consensus would mean a loss of status and public attention and a decline of Jewish political power, while active Muslim hostility would diminish aid to Israel, strengthen the pro-Palestinian lobby, and render interfaith dialogue more difficult.
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