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

Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today

• The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.
• There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world.
• There are more American Muslims than there are American Episcopalians, Jews, or Presbyterians.