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Author Patel, Eboo, 1975-

Title Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation / Eboo Patel
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 189 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189)
Notes English
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Subject Patel, Eboo, 1975-
SUBJECT Patel, Eboo, 1975- fast
Subject Interfaith Youth Core.
SUBJECT Interfaith Youth Core fast
Subject Muslims -- United States -- Biography
East Indian Americans -- Biography
Muslims -- United States -- Ethnic identity
Cultural pluralism -- United States
Youth -- Religious life -- United States
Religions -- Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Interfaith relations
Cultural pluralism
East Indian Americans
Ethnic relations
Muslims
Muslims -- Ethnic identity
Religions
Youth -- Religious life
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
United States -- Religious life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140506
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007009064
ISBN 9780807077450
0807077453
9780807006313
0807006319