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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456951803321
• Autore: Schultz Kevin Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-19-971583-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.973/09045
• Soggetti: Multiculturalism - Religious aspects; Multiculturalism - United States; Christianity and other religions - Judaism; Judaism - Relations - Christianity; Electronic books.; United States Religion 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Inventing tri-faith America, ending 'Protestant America' --pt. 2. Living in tri-faith America.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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