Religious pluralism in America : the contentious history of a founding ideal
"In this 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 emerged 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."--Jacket
History
xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300098136, 9780300105162, 0300098138, 0300105169
50913444
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