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Abstract:
Eleven essays by contributors from different communities, exploring how religious insights can create an inclusive, empowering American narrative that fosters unity and racial justice across diverse communities.
Notes:
Link to PDF file at aspeninstitute.org/publications.

Note: The ideas contained in this publication should not be taken as representing the views or carrying the endorsement of The Aspen Institute, the U.S. Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs, or the organization with which any author is affiliated.

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Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America:

The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings

Audrey C. Price, editor
Selvi Adaikkalam Zabihi, editor

Aspen Institute Religion & Society Program; U.S. Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs, 2024

About: Narratives help us understand the world. They shape our identities, our aspirations, and our sense of purpose. They can offer or preclude hope. We need narratives of America that are honest about our history and current conditions, that are inclusive, empowering and forward-looking. We need narratives that help us find common cause across differences and build a shared vision of the future.

In partnership with the US Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs, we are releasing Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings, edited by Rev. Dr. Audrey Price and Selvi Zabihi. Religious Perspectives is a collection of essays from contributors from Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Bahá’í, Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, through the lens of racial justice and religion, inviting readers into a vision of America with forward-looking narratives.

In this volume, eleven brilliant contributors from within the Religion and Society Program’s Racial Justice & Religion Collective and community have put pen to paper casting a vision of what an inclusive America shaped by religious pluralism can be. (from aspeninstitute.org/publications)

                    Contents (see page at aspeninstitute.org and see book below)

Foreword .................................................................................... 2

Introduction ................................................................................ 4

PART I - Stories of the Peoples and the Land

  The Language of an America We Hope For .................................................... 9
  By Kaitlin Curtice

  Alie(n)ation, Hospitality and Belonging: An Asian American Taoist/Confucian/Christian
     Perspective on American Racism ........................................................ 13
  By Russell Jeung

  Reparations NOW: For The Healing of This Nation .......................................... 17
  By Ekemini Uwan


PART II - Braiding the Strands Together

  All Are Divine: A Sikh Perspective on Non-Discrimination ................................. 25
  By Simran Jeet Singh

  Memory and Imagination: Ancestors and Descendants Create the Narrative ................... 28
  By Yolanda Narva-Savage

  Come In: A Kairos Moment for the American Soul ........................................... 32
  By James Samimi Farr

  The Relational Is Transformational ....................................................... 35
  By Elizabeth Conde Frazier


PART III – Forward-Looking Imaginings

  Narrative of America: Ain’t I a Muslim Woman
  By Rahmah A. Abdulaleem .................................................................. 43

  New Birth of Freedom: Examining Alternative Intersections of 
     Abortion and Religious Liberty ........................................................ 46
  By Lindsey Danziger

  Bearing Witness: Truth, Reclamation and Meaning-Making in Contested American Narratives .. 51
  By Nicole Pressley

  The Stories of Our Names ................................................................. 54
  By Nina Marie Fernando
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