Table of Contents

Foreword - Martin Marty

Contributors

Introduction - Charles L. Cohen and Ronald Numbers

Part One: Overviews
Chapter One: Religious Pluralism in Religious Studies - Amanda Porterfield
Chapter Two: Religious Pluralism in Modern America: A Sociological Overview - John H. Evans
Chapter Three: Worlds in Space: American Religious Pluralism in Geographic Perspective - Bret E. Carroll

Part Two: Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism
Chapter Four: Evangelicalism and Religious Pluralism in Contemporary America: Diversity Without, Diversity Within, and Maintaining the Borders - William Vance Trollinger, Jr.
Chapter Five: Pluralism: Notes on the American Catholic Experience - Scott Appleby
Chapter Six: Religious Pluralism in American Judaism - Deborah Dash Moore

Part Three: Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism
Chapter Seven: Muslims and American Religious Pluralism - Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Chapter Eight: Buddhism, Art, and Transcultural Collage: Toward a Cultural History of Buddhism in the United States, 1945-2000 - Thomas A. Tweed
Chapter Nine: Beyond Pluralism: Global Gurus and the Third Stream of American Religiosity - Joanne Punzo Waghorne

Part Four: Impact of Religious Pluralism: I
Chapter Ten: The Impact of Religious Pluralism on American Women - R. Marie Griffith
Chapter Eleven: Popular Religion and Pluralism, or, Will Harry Potter Be Left Behind? - Peter W. Williams
Chapter Twelve: ''Finding Light through Muddy Waters'': African American Religious Pluralism - Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Part Five: Impact of Religious Pluralism: II
Chapter Thirteen: From Consensus to Struggle: Pluralism and the Body Politic in Contemporary America - Charles H. Lippy
Chapter Fourteen: Piety, International Politics, and Religious Pluralism in the American Experience - Paul Boyer
Chapter Fifteen: ''Courting Anarchy''?: Religious Pluralism and the Law - Shawn Peters

Index

About the Author

Charles L. Cohen is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

"Gods in America boasts a stunning list of notable contributors... [this collection] is not only an exceptional survey of the topic and a thorough introduction to many of its related themes, but is also a useful collection for thinking about fruitful questions for the future." --Religion in American History
"There is no better point of entry to the study of American religious diversity that this carefully constructed volume of essays by leading scholars of the various faith traditions now visible in the United States. The authors not only present the most important historical facts, but reflect discerningly on the theoretical issues of pluralism and authenticity." -- David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor, University of California, Berkeley