The Americanization of Religious Minorities: Confronting the Constitutional Order.

From: Church History | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: Hart, D. G. | Copyright information

The Americanization of Religious Minorities: Confronting the Constitutional Order. By Eric Michael Mazur. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxviii + 196 pp. $38.00 cloth.

The Americanization of Religious Minorities is the kind of book produced when theoretical considerations determine historical research. This is not inherently a defect since few historians approach their subjects without trying to make a point. In this particular case, the author, Er...

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