a:  contemporary America ~
b:  a koan
What:  
Mr. Prothero suggests that contemporary America is like what Zen Buddhism calls a koan , a paradoxical riddle. "That riddle is not, as Ms. Eck's subtitle goes, 'How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation.' It is instead how America has managed to become both a Christian country and a multireligious society at the same time."
Useful?
Writer:  Stephen Prothero
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Date:   Mar 18 2015  7:02 PM
# 7573 Critique Analogy
