Defining Religious Pluralism in America: A Regional Analysis

Mark Silk
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Mark Silk: Trinity College, Hartford

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, vol. 612, issue 1, 62-81

Abstract: In any given time and place, religious pluralism reflects a set of cultural attitudes about the nature and role of religion in society. Prior to World War II, religious pluralism in the United States was conceived as a two-tiered system, with nondenominational Protestantism in the top tier and other legitimate religious groups—Catholics, Jews, Eastern Orthodox, Mormons—relegated to a second tier. Since the war, American society has experimented with several different models, each of which derives from an approach to religious pluralism rooted in a particular region of the country.

Keywords: general Christianity; religion and region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716207301060

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