Pluralism Comes of Age : American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Planting Pluralism in the United States -- Chapter 2. The Shifting Public Presence of Mainline Protestantism -- Chapter 3. Pluralism's Promise and Perils: American Catholicism in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. The Paradox of Pluralism: The Jewish Experience -- Chapter 5. Religion and the Pride of a People: Black Religion in the United States -- Chapter 6. Syncretism and Pluralism: Native American Experiences in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 7. Personal Religious Expression in a Pluralistic Culture -- Chapter 8. The Proliferation of Pluralism -- Chapter 9. The Politics of Religion in a Pluralistic Society -- Chapter 10. Pluralistic Turns in American Religious Thought -- Chapter 11. The Persistence of Pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Starting with the Victorian age, this study moves through the shifting power of US Protestantism and Catholicism into an intense period of immigration and pluralism. Later chapters include the Jewish experience, African American religion, evangelical movements and 20th-century religious thought.