Introduction
Part I: Inventing Tri-Faith America, Ending "Protestant
America"
Chapter 1: Creating Tri-Faith America
Chapter 2: Tri-Faith America as Standard Operating Procedure
Chapter 3: Tri-Faith America in the early Cold War
Part II: The Effects of Tri-Faith America
Chapter 4: Communalism in a Time of Consensus: Postwar Suburbia
Chapter 5: A Secular Rationale for Separation: Public Schools in
Tri-Faith America
Chapter 6: Choosing Our Identities: College Fraternities, Choice,
and Group Rights
Chapter 7: Keeping Religion Private (and Off the U.S. Census)
Chapter 8: From Creed to Color: Softening the Ground for Civil
Rights
Conclusion: The Return of Protestant America?
Notes
Index
Kevin M. Schultz is Associate Professor of History and Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"Schultz's work is an important part of recent scholarship...that
examines how access to the political, social, and cultural
'mainstream' was expanded during World War II and the postwar
period...Tri-Faith America is an important work that challenges
historians to think more critically about religious and ethnic
relations in the postwar period."--Journal of American Ethnic
History
"A creatively imagined, subtly rendered narrative...Schultz has
produced a terrific, timely book that not only accomplishes its
stated goals admirably but also helps us consider anew the
character of public life and debate."--Journal of American
History
"One of the finest studies of twentieth-century religion and
politics in America published in the past two decades."--Sociology
of Religion
"Schultz offers a work filled with contradiction, irony, and
unintended consequence. It exemplifies good intellectual
history."--Religion and Politics
"For scholars of twentieth-century American Jewish history, this
book is a must-read."--American Jewish Archives Journal
"Kevin's Schultz's...tremendous study...brilliantly shows that
between the labor-capital divide of the 1930s and the racial divide
of the 1960s was an ideological contest over the religious
composition of the nation."--Religious Dispatches
"As Kevin M. Schultz demonstrates in this insightful and highly
judicious study, 'Tri-Faith America' represented far more than an
interfaith celebration of the postwar nation's 'new religious
sociology.' Catholics and Jews pressed their own visions of
pluralism with an often militant fervor that changed everything
from collegiate fraternity life, manuals of social etiquette, and
even America's public education system. This is a timely and
important
book."--James T. Fisher, Fordham University
"Kevin Schultz has placed the history of American religion squarely
at the center of political history and, in this insightful and
deeply researched book, he has pinpointed the origins of America's
embrace of religious pluralism. He has located these fundamental
changes in the early decades of the twentieth century and has shown
how the emergence of 'tri-faith' rhetoric involved much more than
just talk. Rather it reflected a tectonic shift in the life of
the
nation, and Kevin Schultz deserves our applause for teaching us
about it."--Hasia R. Diner, Goldstein-Goren Center for American
Jewish History, New York University
"As Kevin M. Schultz amply demonstrates in this fresh, absorbing,
and admirably nuanced study, the central drama of twentieth-century
American religion was the tense, complex, but ultimately successful
path to mutual accommodation traveled by American Protestants,
Catholics, and Jews. Many authors from Will Herberg onward have
treated this theme in various ways, but none has done so with more
subtlety and insight, balancing the achievements of 'tri-faith
America' against its weaknesses and liabilities. Schultz has given
us a book we will need to learn from, and contend with, in the
years to come, as we make our way through a very different
landscape of
religious complexity."--Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga
"Nicely illuminates the pre-World War II origins of contemporary
ideals of tolerance and inclusion. Riveting
reading."--Balkinization
"The reader who relishes a nuanced view of the forces that have
shaped American history and the American Jewish experience will
find this book a delight."--Jewish Book World
"Timely...This important book opens up a promising new framework
for reevaluating the American religious and political landscapes of
the twentieth century."--Journal of Church and State
"This well-researched and clearly argued book explains how
Protestant America became Judeo-Christian America and then how the
success of that achievement led to results that many who cooperated
to promote the transition did not expect...[U]nusually fine
book."--American Catholic Studies
"One of the finest studies of twentieth century religion and
politics in America published in the past two decades."--Sociology
of Religion
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