Tri-Faith America How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise

"A creatively imagined, subtly rendered narrative...Schultz has produced a terrific, timely book that not only accomplishes its stated goals admirably but also helps us consider anew the character of public life and debate." --Journal of American History"One of the finest studies of twentieth-century religion and politics in America published in the past two decades." --Sociology of Religion"Schultz offers a work filled with contradiction, irony, and unintended consequence. It exemplifies good intellectual history." --Religion and Politics"For scholars of twentieth-century American Jewish history, this book is a must-read." --American Jewish Archives Journal&R"Kevin's Schultz's...tremendous study...brilliantly shows that between the labor-capital divide of the 1930s and the racial divide of the 1960s was an ideological contest over the religious composition of the nation." --Religious Dispatches"As Kevin M. Schultz demonstrates in this insightful and highly judicious study, 'Tri-Faith America' represented far more than an interfaith celebration of the postwar nation's 'new religious sociology.' Catholics and Jews pressed their own visions of pluralism with an often militant fervor that changed everything from collegiate fraternity life, manuals of social etiquette, and even America's public education system. This is a timely and important book."-James T. Fisher, Fordham University"Kevin Schultz has placed the history of American religion squarely at the center of political history and, in this insightful and deeply researched book, he has pinpointed the origins of America's embrace of religious pluralism. He has located these fundamental changes in the early decades of the twentieth century and has shown how the emergence of 'tri-faith' rhetoric involved much more than just talk. Rather it reflected a tectonic shift in the life of the nation, and Kevin Schultz deserves our applause for teaching us about it."-Hasia R.