Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding IdealYale University Press, 1 ott 2008 - 288 pagine Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken justifiable pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define our nation, for two centuries we have been grappling with the question of how we can coexist. In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, William Hutchison chronicles the country’s struggle to fulfill the promise of its founding ideals. In 1800 the United States was an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. Over the next two centuries, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others would emerge to challenge the Protestant mainstream. Although their demands were often met with resistance, Hutchison demonstrates that as a result of these conflicts we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. No longer satisfied with mere legal toleration, we now expect that all religious groups will share in creating our national agenda. This book offers a groundbreaking and timely history of our efforts to become one nation under multiple gods. |
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... diversity and pluralism , as applied to religion and to American society generally , have surged in prominence and common usage over the past several decades . Both terms come into play when we consider Asian religions and others that ...
... diversity and pluralism , as applied to religion and to American society generally , have surged in prominence and common usage over the past several decades . Both terms come into play when we consider Asian religions and others that ...
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... diversity , it does not — to resort to a current coinage — fore- ground them . Secondly , my analysis needs to be understood as proceeding from a standard linguistic distinction that is , however , often obscured in everyday speech ...
... diversity , it does not — to resort to a current coinage — fore- ground them . Secondly , my analysis needs to be understood as proceeding from a standard linguistic distinction that is , however , often obscured in everyday speech ...
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... diversity . They did do better . The nine- teenth century in western Europe was an era of gradual decline for formal religious establishments , and of slowly increasing levels of protection for minority faiths . Americans , faced with ...
... diversity . They did do better . The nine- teenth century in western Europe was an era of gradual decline for formal religious establishments , and of slowly increasing levels of protection for minority faiths . Americans , faced with ...
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... diversity had by then expanded well beyond what it had been in 1800. The meaning of such widely accepted concepts as religious freedom and mutual respect had indeed broadened down from one era to the next . Although one can identify a ...
... diversity had by then expanded well beyond what it had been in 1800. The meaning of such widely accepted concepts as religious freedom and mutual respect had indeed broadened down from one era to the next . Although one can identify a ...
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... diversity . Secondly , why did we think we had done so well ? One answer to the first question has already been hinted : no society , past or present , has responded to sudden diversification with a rapid or full embrace of newcomers ...
... diversity . Secondly , why did we think we had done so well ? One answer to the first question has already been hinted : no society , past or present , has responded to sudden diversification with a rapid or full embrace of newcomers ...
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The Protestant Establishment as a Unifying Force | 59 |
Adjustments Within the Establishment | 84 |
Pluralism as Inclusion | 111 |
The Establishment Under Stress in the Early Twentieth Century | 139 |
Early Assaults on the Melting Pot Ideal | 170 |
New Mainstream Gropings Toward a New Pluralism | 196 |
9 Whose America Is It Anyway? The Sixties and After | 219 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 263 |
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