The Faith Next Door: American Christians and Their New Religious Neighbors
"That the United States has become a religiously plural country is common knowledge.  What Paul Numrich illumines is how that plurality is affecting local communities and churches. These case studies give the reader invaluable insights into what religious plurality does, positively and negatively, to religious faith. An important resource."-Dr. Terry C. Muck, Dean and Professor of World Religion, Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky"This book is packed with fascinating stories and insights about how actual church communities are relating to their new neighbors from other religions. It tells about churches that are competitive and defensive but also about others that are open, neighborly, and communicative with these new non-Christian communities of worship.  This profound and practical book conveys real portraits of how Christians are engaging this new religious presence in traditionally Christian societies."-Don Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, and author ofEquality and the Family