• Introduction


• Part I: Inventing Tri-Faith America, Ending "Protestant America"


• Chapter 1: Creating Tri-Faith America


• Chapter 2: Tri-Faith America as Standard Operating Procedure


• Chapter 3: Tri-Faith America in the early Cold War


• Part II: The Effects of Tri-Faith America


• Chapter 4: Communalism in a Time of Consensus: Postwar Suburbia


• Chapter 5: A Secular Rationale for Separation: Public Schools in Tri-Faith America


• Chapter 6: Choosing Our Identities: College Fraternities, Choice, and Group Rights


• Chapter 7: Keeping Religion Private (and Off the U.S. Census)


• Chapter 8: From Creed to Color: Softening the Ground for Civil Rights


• Conclusion: The Return of Protestant America?


• Notes


• Index

Kevin M. Schultz is Associate Professor of History and Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz explains how the United States left behind the idea that it was "a Protestant nation" and embraced the notion that Protestants, Catholics, and Jews were "Americans all." Schultz describes how the tri-faith idea surfaced after World War I and how, by the end of World War II, the idea was becoming widely accepted. During the Cold War, the public religiosity spurred by the fight against godless communism led to widespread embrace of the tri-faith idea.