Summary Of The Final Chapter Of American Grace

As mentioned there is a division of fear or hostility when it comes to any form of ‘House of God’. When it comes to a church many Americans are happy to have one in their neighborhood but unfortunately when it comes to a mosque or temple or even a synagogue these are met with more resistance, “Almost everyone is okay with a Christian Church in their neighborhood; highly religious Americans are less sure about a Buddhist temple” (Putnam and Campbell, p514-515). Does this make them less tolerant? Or is this about fear and instability? This is where I see that Putnam and Campbell have not answered the question of whether America is as liberal or even as tolerant as one would like to believe. The final chapter of this book talks extensively about how the view of what types of

They showed that Americans have shown to be willing to blur the doctrine lines that they follow in order to have inter faith harmony. Certain beliefs in many faiths have changed as Professor Magagna stated “the democratization of faith” (Magagna, February 3rd, 2017). We have seen democracy working in religion at a much large scale. We can see that many faithful leaders of any religion are guided by the leader i.e, the pope, prophets, saints, God. But many of these clerics in order to be successful are subject to the pressure of its followers and many are guided by the desires of their followers and congregation and witnessing the changes that are occurring during that era. An example that Professor Magagna used during lecture was how would a leader preach comments that the followers may not like i.e. sinners? Clerics similar to many jobs are guided and chosen by the ‘employees’ or ‘followers’ and that in order for them to keep their job they must be admired by their congregation. Therefore we can see how their views can change in order to be admired and liked by their