The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man: American Jews and American religious pluralism, 1939--1960

This dissertation is a study of how World War II and the Cold War shaped the emergence of religious pluralism as an affirmative value in American culture. Drawing upon a range of evidence from American politics, intellectual and religious life, mass media, and popular culture, it shows how anti-fascism and anti-communism created a newly inclusive conception of American faith on the home front, one which made Judaism' an equal part of a "Judeo-Christian" religious consensus and ratified religious diversity as a defining characteristic of American national identity.