Defining religious pluralism in America : a regional analysis
By: SILK, Mark
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, July 2007The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 612, p. 64-81Abstract: 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.
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.
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