Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal
Wellman, James K., Jr., Journal of Church and State
Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. By William R. Hutchison. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. 288 pp. $18.00 paper.
William Hutchison's Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal is a feast for the historian of American religion and a spur to the national conversation on religious pluralism. Hutchison helpfully distinguishes between the fact of diversity and the ideal of pluralism as a state in which subcultures maintain their distinctiveness while participating in a common culture. Pluralism, coined in the twentieth century, took shape as an idea in the nineteenth century. Hutchinson sketches …
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Publication information:
Article title: Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal.
Contributors: Wellman, James K., Jr. - Author.
Journal title: Journal of Church and State.
Volume: 47.
Issue: 2
Publication date: Spring 2005.
Page number: 411+.
© 1999 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State.
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