Tri-faith America [electronic resource] : how Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise / Kevin M. Schultz.
- Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Format/Description:
- Book
1 online resource (265 p.) - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects.
Multiculturalism -- United States.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
United States -- Religion -- 20th century. - Form/Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Language:
- English
- 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 and Jewish immigration fo
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Inventing tri-faith America, ending 'Protestant America'
pt. 2. Living in tri-faith America. - Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index. - ISBN:
- 0-19-984105-5
0-19-971583-1 - OCLC:
- 711758266