At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, C

At a time when religious conflict and violence seem to dominate the media, distinguished religion journalist Gustav Niebuhr set off across America to find peopl

There is a myth—easily shattered—that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between indiv

How can people of diverse religious, historical, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting sufferi

Examines the nature of community and religion in the United States, traces the origins of religious freedom along with its advances and setbacks, and surveys th