SILK, Mark <br/><br/>
Defining religious pluralism in America :  a regional analysis 

 - Thousand Oaks :  SAGE,  July 2007 
<br/><br/> 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.