Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: September 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780252066474
Subjects: American history; Religion - Church History; Religion; The Americas; Christianity - Protestant; Comparative Religion; United States - General; Religion / General; Christian sects; Influence; Protestant churches; Religious pluralism; United States
First sentence: Sometime in 1903 or 1904 the great Talmudic scholar Rabbi Jacob David Willowski of Slutsk (1845-1913), then serving a brief and contentious term as chief rabbi of Chicago, took time from his studies to write, in Hebrew, a lengthy disquisition on the state of Judaism in America.