Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although American

Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Ameri

Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in

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

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accid