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 10
... movement of the 1960s . Indeed , if the analysis in my own book is even half right , Americans today are being dragged — sometimes kicking and screaming , sometimes in a state of calm and genuine persuasion — into the realities not just ...
... movement of the 1960s . Indeed , if the analysis in my own book is even half right , Americans today are being dragged — sometimes kicking and screaming , sometimes in a state of calm and genuine persuasion — into the realities not just ...
Pagina 28
... movements of abolitionists and of socialists , and in very significant as- semblies ... composed of ultraists , of seekers , of all the soul of the sol- diery of dissent . " 31 On the fringes of these movements Emerson found not just ...
... movements of abolitionists and of socialists , and in very significant as- semblies ... composed of ultraists , of seekers , of all the soul of the sol- diery of dissent . " 31 On the fringes of these movements Emerson found not just ...
Pagina 31
... movements . ” And a few years later , Philip Schaff , probably with the Mormons at the front of his mind , was ex- plaining candidly to Europeans that in the United States religious liberty was allowed to those " who do not outrage ...
... movements . ” And a few years later , Philip Schaff , probably with the Mormons at the front of his mind , was ex- plaining candidly to Europeans that in the United States religious liberty was allowed to those " who do not outrage ...
Pagina 37
... movement declined . Although it had tapped a rich vein- the idea or feeling that all must prepare for Christ's return- and although later premillennial bodies owed a great deal to Miller and the Great Disappointment , Millerism itself ...
... movement declined . Although it had tapped a rich vein- the idea or feeling that all must prepare for Christ's return- and although later premillennial bodies owed a great deal to Miller and the Great Disappointment , Millerism itself ...
Pagina 39
... movement out of which they came , most of them revered Jesus as little more than an outstanding or perhaps a uniquely inspired exemplar of the divinity com- mon to humankind . For much of Christian doctrine they substituted what seemed ...
... movement out of which they came , most of them revered Jesus as little more than an outstanding or perhaps a uniquely inspired exemplar of the divinity com- mon to humankind . For much of Christian doctrine they substituted what seemed ...
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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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