The 10-year Pluralism Project has documented how America became the most religiously diverse nation on earth. Now, in one of his most profound works yet, the award-winning sociologist grapples with these new realities, asking how to respect other faiths even if we feel our own is the one true way. 448 pages, hardcover. Princeton University.
Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. His previous books include After the Baby Boomers, Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society; Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Artist; and Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities.
"This book is one of Wuthnow's best. He lends his fine-grained analysis to a topic that is at the heart of the experiment called American democracy: how people manage the idea that religion should be about the one true faith with their desire to welcome faiths other than their own." -Alan Wolfe, Boston College
"This is a wonderful book. I know of no other works that interrogate the contradictions between the historical sense many Americans hold that America is a 'Christian nation' and the current realities and challenges of religious diversity and pluralism. It is a very thorough, penetrating examination of a topic that requires immediate attention." -Lynn Davidman, Brown University
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