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Tri-Faith America - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (Hardcover)
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Tri-Faith America - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (Hardcover)
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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 Schultzexplains 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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