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Tri-Faith America - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (Paperback)
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Tri-Faith America - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (Paperback)
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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
forced Protestant Social Gospelers to combine forces with Catholic
and Jewish relief agencies, Tri-Faith America shows how the
tri-faith idea gathered momentum after World War I, promoted by
public relations campaigns, interfaith organizations, and the
government, to the point where, by the end of World War II and into
the early years of the Cold War, the idea was becoming widely
accepted, particularly in the armed forces, fraternities,
neighborhoods, social organizations, and schools. Tri-Faith America
also shows how postwar Catholics and Jews used the new image to
force the country to confront the challenges of pluralism. Should
Protestant bibles be allowed on public school grounds? Should
Catholic and Jewish fraternities be allowed to exclude Protestants?
Should the government be allowed to count Americans by religion?
Challenging the image of the conformist 1950s, Schultz describes
how Americans were vigorously debating the merits of recognizing
pluralism, paving the way for the civil rights movement and leaving
an enduring mark on American culture.
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