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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Pagina 8
... immigrant “ nativ- ism ” —that is fairly well known and has been quite fully chronicled . The other was a milder but highly effective form of resistance that was grounded more in a unitive impulse than in a xenophobic one . This second ...
... immigrant “ nativ- ism ” —that is fairly well known and has been quite fully chronicled . The other was a milder but highly effective form of resistance that was grounded more in a unitive impulse than in a xenophobic one . This second ...
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... immigrant agrono- mist and writer named Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur , in the 1780s , used broad strokes of that kind in characterizing the new society and ( along with much else ) its religious life , few of his critics accused him of ...
... immigrant agrono- mist and writer named Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur , in the 1780s , used broad strokes of that kind in characterizing the new society and ( along with much else ) its religious life , few of his critics accused him of ...
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... immigrants arrived from various European countries . Around the middle of the eighteenth century , a visitor to the New York colony reported that " most of the young people now speak En- glish and would even take it amiss if they were ...
... immigrants arrived from various European countries . Around the middle of the eighteenth century , a visitor to the New York colony reported that " most of the young people now speak En- glish and would even take it amiss if they were ...
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... immigrants had been British Protestants . But of course most of the in - flooding immigrants were not British Protestants . These were not simply new people ; to an unprecedented de- gree they were " different " people.23 To be sure ...
... immigrants had been British Protestants . But of course most of the in - flooding immigrants were not British Protestants . These were not simply new people ; to an unprecedented de- gree they were " different " people.23 To be sure ...
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... immigrants were " coolies ” —if that term is used to denote a kind of indentured servitude . Low - paid manual laborers they were , and many came heavily indebted to those who had paid their way . By and large , however , exactly like ...
... immigrants were " coolies ” —if that term is used to denote a kind of indentured servitude . Low - paid manual laborers they were , and many came heavily indebted to those who had paid their way . By and large , however , exactly like ...
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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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