Religious pluralism in America the contentious history of a founding ideal /

Hutchison, William R.

Religious pluralism in America the contentious history of a founding ideal / [electronic resource] : William R. Hutchison. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003. - xi, 276 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.

Introduction : religious pluralism as a work in progress -- Here are no disputes : reputation and realities in the new republic -- Just behave yourself : pluralism as selective tolerance -- Marching to Zion : the Protestant establishment as a unifying force -- Repentance for our social sins : adjustments within the establishment -- In (partway) from the margins : pluralism as inclusion -- Surviving a while longer : the establishment under stress in the early twentieth century -- Don't change your name : early assaults on the melting pot ideal -- Protestant-Catholic-Jew : new mainstream, gropings toward a new pluralism -- Whose America is it anyway? : the sixties and after.


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Religious pluralism--History.--United States


United States--Religion.


Electronic books.

BL2525 / .H88 2003

291.1/72/0973