Tri-faith America : how Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise / / Kevin M. Schultz
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| Autore: |
Schultz Kevin Michael
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| Titolo: |
Tri-faith America : how Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise / / Kevin M. Schultz
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 200.973/09045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Multiculturalism - Religious aspects |
| Multiculturalism - United States | |
| Christianity and other religions - Judaism | |
| Judaism - Relations - Christianity | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Religion 20th century |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tri-faith America |
| ISBN: | 0-19-984105-5 |
| 0-19-971583-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819855203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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