Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding IdealYale University Press, 2003 M01 1 - 276 pages In this groundbreaking and timely history, an eminent historian of religion chronicles America's struggle to fulfill the promise of religious toleration enshrined in our Constitution. William Hutchison shows that as Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others emerged to challenge the Protestant mainstream, we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. ?[This] landmark study address[es] a topic that is both central to American history and relevant to pressing current debates. . . . Stimulating, illuminating, and provocative.”?Mark Noll ?A fascinating account of how religious pluralism, a pluralism that now accepts the most distant stretches of religious diversity, has become institutionalized in the United States.”?Nathan Glazer ?Rich and engaging.”?Thomas C. Berg, Christian Century ?Hutchison's history is learned and accessible. In its use of cultural evidence?including political cartoons, gospel lyrics, portraits, and photographs?it is even entertaining. . . . More importantly, at all points it is clear.”?Erin Leib, New York Sun |
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... kind for American religious history.3 But that cure could be worse than the disease . For one thing , historical writings and academic courses that pride themselves on avoiding explicit propositions about American religion are ...
... kind for American religious history.3 But that cure could be worse than the disease . For one thing , historical writings and academic courses that pride themselves on avoiding explicit propositions about American religion are ...
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... kind of reapportionment has been not merely proposed ; it has been rather frequently attempted , as surveys of recent course syllabi will confirm . ( For what is , collectively , a stunning testimony to this , see the " American ...
... kind of reapportionment has been not merely proposed ; it has been rather frequently attempted , as surveys of recent course syllabi will confirm . ( For what is , collectively , a stunning testimony to this , see the " American ...
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... kind people now discuss did not arrive until the second half of the twentieth . I believe that Americans and their public policy are only now coming to terms , however grudgingly or opportunistically , with a radical diversifica ...
... kind people now discuss did not arrive until the second half of the twentieth . I believe that Americans and their public policy are only now coming to terms , however grudgingly or opportunistically , with a radical diversifica ...
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... kind of society . Like most mythologies , national or otherwise , this one was not all wrong . What Ahlstrom intended in his passing remark , and what I , in agreement , have tried to spell out in this book , is not a denial that early ...
... kind of society . Like most mythologies , national or otherwise , this one was not all wrong . What Ahlstrom intended in his passing remark , and what I , in agreement , have tried to spell out in this book , is not a denial that early ...
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... kind of acceptance as inadequate , both morally and practically . Yet the resulting " inclusion- ist " ideology , which clearly was a move forward in any pluralist perspec- tive , rarely granted to the newly included an equal or ...
... kind of acceptance as inadequate , both morally and practically . Yet the resulting " inclusion- ist " ideology , which clearly was a move forward in any pluralist perspec- tive , rarely granted to the newly included an equal or ...
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