Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-233) and index.
Contents
Planting pluralism in the United States -- The shifting public presence of mainline Protestantism -- Pluralism's promise and perils: American Catholicism in the twentieth century -- The paradox of pluralism: the Jewish experience -- Religion and the pride of a people: Black religion in the United States -- Syncretism and pluralism: Native American experiences in the twentieth century -- Personal religious expression in a pluralistic culture -- The proliferation of pluralism -- The politics of religion in a pluralistic society -- Pluralistic turns in American religious thought -- The persistence of pluralism.