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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 Visualizza persona
Titolo: Tri-faith America : how Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise / / Kevin M. Schultz Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-984105-5
0-19-971583-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819855203321
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