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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William R Hutchison |
ISBN: | 0300098138 9780300098136 0300105169 9780300105162 |
OCLC Number: | 50913444 |
Description: | xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | William R. Hutchison. |
Abstract:
Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in the Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. In this reappraisal of American religious history, William Hutchison chronicles the country's struggle to fulfill the promise of its founding ideals.
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"Hutchison has written a fascinating account of how religious pluralism - a pluralism that now accepts the most distant stretches of religious diversity - has become institutionalised in the United States." Nathan Glazer "This is the most ambitious book yet from the dean of historians of religion in the United States: a wonderfully discerning exploration of how Americans have variously confronted and tried to evade the challenge of religious diversity." David Hollinger, author of Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism Read more...

