Introducing American religion Selected religious themes and ideas from European native American and African life that set the stage for what became religion in the U.S. Clash of religious cultures and accommodation Accidental diversity Diversity in the age of independence Religion in Red Black and White : the dimensions of diversity within the African American experience during slavery Expanding frontiers; geographic and ideological The growth of Roman Catholic immigration and Jewish immigration Efforts at unity amid diversity as seen in social reform activities Region as a factor in diversity How later nineteenth century urbanization and industrialization augmented diversity New religious alternatives that emerged in industrializing America Retrenchment and reaction after World War I Intellectual currents of modernity and beyond Challenges to diversity in the 20th century as seen through court cases New faces of diversity Sex sexuality and spirituality