| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: INVENTING TRI-FAITH AMERICA, ENDING "PROTESTANT AMERICA"; 1. Creating Tri-Faith America; 2. Tri-Faith America as Standard Operating Procedure; 3. Tri-Faith America in the Early Cold War; PART TWO: LIVING IN TRI-FAITH AMERICA; 4. Communalism in a Time of Consensus: Postwar Suburbia; 5. A New Rationale for Separation: Public Schools in Tri-Faith America; 6. Choosing Our Identities: College Fraternities, Choice, and Group Rights; 7. Keeping Religion Private (and Off the U.S. Census) |
| Summary |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was "a Protestant country," he said, "and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance." In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz explains how the United States left behind this idea that it was "a Protestant nation" and replaced it with a new national image, one premised on the notion that the country was composed of three separate, equally American faiths-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. Tracing the origins of the tri-faith idea to the early twentieth century, when Catholic a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects.
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Multiculturalism -- United States
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- History.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
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Christianity
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Interfaith relations
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Judaism
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Multiculturalism
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Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010029149 |
| ISBN |
9780199715831 |
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0199715831 |
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