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612 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2007)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0612 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction By WADE CLARK ROOF This issue of The Annals focusing on Religious Pluralism and Civil Society should be of interest to social scientists, policy makers, and the informed public. An expanded religious diversity and occasional multifaith tensions of a new sort are evident in every region across the United States. It is most noticeable in the growing pres- ence of non-Western religious communities, especially Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs, but also of Latinos and other Christian immigrants whose religious practices, dress, and lifestyles mark them as distinctive from other Americans. Religious outsiders are hardly new as seen through the eyes of Euro-American Christians, but the range of diversity in today's global context is greater than ever before. The United States is now the world writ small. Factors other than simply the presence of non-Western religions of course contribute to the heightened visibility and tensions surround- ing pluralism. Conservative religious and polit- ical groups, engaged in identity politics in defense of their beliefs, values, and ideologies, remind multiculturalists emphasizing the rights of religious and secular minorities that in this country white Christians are still in the major- ity. Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians see themselves as embroiled in nothing less than a struggle for America's soul. They worry about the country's future: Time magazine's cover in 1993 showing an emerging future, multiethnic face of America-15 percent Anglo-Saxon, 10.5 percent Middle Eastern, 17.5 percent African, 7.5 percent Asian, 35 percent southern European, and 14.5 percent Latino-appears increasingly real. Harvard's Samuel P. Huntington gives intellectual coherence to the fear that an older Anglo-Protestant core culture could be displaced, and should this happen a crisis of national identity would follow. The title of his recent book makes the point: Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004). DOJ: 10.1177/0002716207301070 ANNALS, AAPSS, 612, July 2007 6

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