Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century [Paperback]

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.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.Chapter 1 Planting Pluralism in the United States; Chapter 2 The Shifting Public Presence of Mainline Protestantism; Chapter 3 Pluralisms 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;USCopyright ? 2000 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.