Tri-faith America : how Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise / Kevin M. Schultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultz, Kevin Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects.

Multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

United States--Religion--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

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.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-984105-5

0-19-971583-1

OCLC:

711758266