Tri-Faith America : How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
ISBN: 9780195331769 | 0195331761
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/6/2011
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Tri-Faith America explains how the United States left behind the idea 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, all of which shared in America's newly invented "Judeo-Christian tradition." Tracing the origins of the tri-faith idea to the early twentieth century, when Catholic and Jewish immigration forced Protestant Social Gospelers to combine forces with Catholic and Jewish relief ... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Inventing Tri-Faith America, Ending ôProtestant Americaö | |
| Creating Tri-Faith America | p. 15 |
| Tri-Faith America as Standard Operating Procedure | p. 43 |
| Tri-Faith America in the Early Cold War | p. 68 |
| Living in Tri-Faith America | |
| Communalism in a Time of Consensus: Postwar Suburbia | p. 99 |
| A New Rationa... MORE | p. 118 |
| Choosing Our Identities: College Fraternities, Choice, and Group Rights | p. 138 |
| Keeping Religion Private (and Off the U.S. Census) | p. 159 |
| From Creed to Color: Softening the Ground for Civil Rights | p. 179 |
| Conclusion: The Return of Protestant America? | p. 198 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 246 |
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