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.

• 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

Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.