American Islam
The bias and oppression of Muslims and the structures utilized to enforce stigmas against Muslims.
What is Islamophobia?
The term Samsara describes this concept.
What is the cycle of rebirth?
The person who questions if Buddhists are idol worshippers in The Bodhi Tree Grows in LA identifies as part of this religion.
What is Christianity?
The Virgin of Guadalupe is one of this Christian figure’s appearances to human beings.
Who is the Virgin Mary the Mother of Jesus?
The form of protest that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez supported and Malcolm X questioned.
What is Nonviolence?
This religious community is currently being led by Louis Farrakhan, headed in Chicago, and sees Christianity as failing the Black community in the US.
What is the Nation of Islam?
The term Moksha describes this concept.
What is liberation?
This concept in Buddhism, a cause to bring suffering to an end, enfolds the concepts of Right understanding, Right thought, Right speech, Right action, Right livelihood, Right effort, Right mindfulness, Right concentration.
What is the Eightfold Path?
The organization that Cesar Chavez organizes with Dolores Huerta to fight for the rights of working migrants.
What is the Union for Farm Workers?
A common practice understood as the blending of religions and cultures together, this term is a complicated idea that is attached to Chinese religious blending by practitioners of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
What is Syncretism?
These five rituals are described as the pillars of Islam.
What are the shahada, salat, zakat, sawm, and hajj?
The first Guru in Sikhism.
Who is Guru Nanak?
This form of Buddhism is described as the ‘Greater Vehicle’ and is more commonly found in East Asia.
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
This person saw the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe first.
Who is Juan Diego?
The concept of performing action without purpose in Taoism is called this term.
What is Wu wei?
These two ideals are often held in tension for Black Muslims, who must navigate religious imperatives and issues for Black people in the US.
What are Islamic Universalism and Black Particularism?
The Festival of Lights in Hinduism.
What is Divali / Diwali?
These four concepts are described as the Four Noble Truths.
What are suffering exists; it has a cause; it has an end; and it has a cause to bring about its end?
This religion, often seen as a combination of indigenous West African religions and Roman Catholicism, is also called “The Way of the Saints.”
What is Santería?
These two clauses are religious protections in the US Constitution.
What are the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause?
This town and city are described by Diane Eck as American Islam’s hometown and urban center.
What are Dearborn, MI & Cedar Rapids, IA?
The central sacred religious text of Sikhism.
What is the Guru Granth Sahib?
In the Bodhi Tree Grows in LA, this practice of meditation, also called insight meditation, leads to clear awareness, removing the pollutions of the mind.
What is vipassana?
This theological practice combines Marxist thought around food distribution with Christian theology.
What is Liberation Theology?
The concept of li in Confucianism is often translated as this idea.
What is ritual correctness or ritual propriety?