ISBN: 978-080707726-9
Pages: 208
Binding Information: Cloth
Size: 5.5″ X 8.5″ Inches
Illustrated: No
Copyright Date Ed: 07/01/2007
Trade Code: 00C
Price: $22.95 Out of stock. Backorder policy Not yet published. Next Release Date: June 4, 2007
A young Muslim activist explains our critical need to counter the recruitment of youth by religious fundamentalists
“I am an American Muslim from India. My adolescence was a series of rejections, one after another, of the various dimensions of my heritage, in the belief that America, India, and Islam could not coexist within the same being. If I wanted to be one, I could not be the others. My struggle to understand the traditions I belong to as mutually enriching rather than mutually exclusive is the story of a generation of young people standing at the crossroads of inheritance and discovery, trying to look both ways at once. There is a strong connection between finding a sense of inner coherence and developing a commitment to pluralism. And that has everything to do with who meets you at the crossroads.”
So writes Eboo Patel at the beginning of his remarkable account of coming of age and coming to understand what led him toward religious pluralism rather than hatred.
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