Saving faith : making religious pluralism an American value at the dawn of the secular age

Saving faith : making religious pluralism an American value at the dawn of the secular age / David Mislin.

Examines the period between 1875 and 1925 when liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their influence to affirm that all religious traditions had social value, leading to a reconsideration of ethnic, racial, and cultural differences.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mislin, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Religious pluralism > United States > History.
Protestantism > United States > History.
Liberalism (Religion) > Protestant churches > History.
Christianity and other religions > United States.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Liberalism (Religion) > Protestant churches
Protestantism
Religious pluralism
United States > Church history > 19th century.
United States > Church history > 20th century.
United States
Church history
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Gilded Age crisis of faith and the reevaluation of religious pluralism
  • Twilight faith : the embrace of doubt as the embrace of diversity
  • Correcting Elijah's mistake : the liberal Protestant embrace of comparative religion
  • An expansive Kingdom of God : the articulation of Protestant-Catholic-Jewish commonality
  • Drawing together : the cooperative impulse in liberal religious thought
  • Of union and unity : the quest for a Christian wholeness
  • Proclaiming common ground : the goodwill movement and the shaping of a Jewish-Christian America
  • Epilogue : making religious pluralism an American value.

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