Tri-faith America : how Catholics and Jews held postwar America to its Protestant promise /
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 wa...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Creating tri-faith America
- Tri-faith America as standard operating procedure
- Tri-faith America in the early Cold War
- Communalism in a time of consensus: postwar suburbia
- A new rationale for separation: public schools in tri-faith America
- Choosing our identities: college fraternities, choice, and group rights
- Keeping religion private (and off the U.S. census)
- From creed to color: softening the ground for civil rights.