Pluralisms With a Big "S": The American Versions
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @ 6:00pm
Event Info
Admission
Venue
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago,
IL
60610
Presenter
The Newberry Library
312-943-9090
This event will be recorded for WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified.
America is a country increasingly defined by its diversity. We are religiously, culturally, ethnically, and racially pluralistic, composed of many different parts and interests. But what do we mean when we talk about America’s many “pluralisms”? Sometimes it is equated with “manyness” or “diversity,” but more is involved than those words connote. Join the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture and Professor Martin E. Marty to explore ways of understanding, interpreting, and teaching the varieties of phenomena we have in mind when we talk about America’s civil and religious “pluralism.”






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