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

Religious pluralism in America : the contentious history of a founding ideal / William R. Hutchison.

Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in the Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define their nation, for two centuries they have been grappling with the...

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Main Author: Hutchison, William R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Religious pluralism > United States > History.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
HISTORY > General.
Religion
Religious pluralism
Godsdiensten.
Plurale samenleving.
United States > Religion.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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