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    Navajo Medicine People Keep Traditions Alive

    Navajo elders created an apprenticeship program aimed at teaching more young Navajos the ceremonies performed by traditional healers. Above, combat veterans watch a Navajo medicine man fan a fire in his teepee during ceremonies to care for the soldiers.

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    Religious Diversity in One American Community

    There are over 200 places of worship in Flushing, New York, and residents claim it is the "birthplace of religious freedom in America." It remains a model of religious pluralism.

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    Keeping the Promise of Religious Freedom

    Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion at Harvard University and author of A New Religious America, looks at religious freedom in the United States, now the world’s most religiously diverse society.

On The Record

Quote BeginningUltimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which
our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.End Quote

Robert F. Kennedy, 1964

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  • America’s Religious Landscape

    The United States welcomes people of every faith. While most Americans are devout, they are also tolerant of other peoples' religious beliefs.

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