Pluralism Comes of Age

This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience. 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;