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 [2] 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.”
Martin E. Marty [3] is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. Prof. Marty’s lecture is a part of the Scholl Center’s ongoing National Endowment for the Humanities’ Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges [4] program, “Out of Many: Religious Pluralism in America.” [5] Read an interview with Professor Marty [6] about his study of "pluralism."