Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Protestant Unity and the American Mission-The Historiography of a Desire -- Part One: Outsider Religions, Ethnicity, and American Identity -- Chapter One. How To Become a People: The Mormon Scenario -- Chapter Two. Managing Catholic Success in a Protestant Empire -- Chapter Three. American Jews as an Ordinary Minority -- Part Two: The Progressive's Despair-Religions for Average Americans -- Chapter Four. Christian Science and American Popular Religion -- Chapter Five. Premillennial Christian Views of God's Justice and American Injustice -- Chapter Six. The Protestant Majority as a Lost Generation-A Look at Fundamentalism -- Chapter Seven. Black Culture and Black Churches-The Quest for an Autonomous Identity -- Postscript: Civil and Uncivil Religions-Describing Religious Pluralism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Examining seven influential groups of religious "outsiders"--Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennilasts, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and African-American churches-- this book finds that, despite the American ideal of religious tolerance, our nation has long shown suspicion and hostility to many of these groups even though they embody quintessentially American values.

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