Description
This essay examines how religious outsiders have shaped American culture and identity. It argues that these groups embody values that are quintessentially American, and that their classification as "marginal" is a strategical fiction by historians.
An examination of groups outside the American Protestant mainstream, such as Mormons, Catholics, Jews and the black churches, this argues that many such groups embody values that are quintessentially American and that their classification as "marginal" is a strategical fiction by historians.