@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7rmnn.6,
 ISBN = {9780691134116},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rmnn.6},
 abstract = {A popular response to questions about religious diversity, both from rank-and-file Americans and from community leaders, is that the topic is essentially unworthy of serious reflection: either because religious diversity has not been part of one’s experience or because it is satisfactorily covered among our constitutional rights. Yet if one examines discussions of religion in the past, it becomes clear that diversity was seldom divorced from thinking about ourselves and our identity as a nation. Contributors to these discussions believed that America was a special place and that its distinctiveness was somehow related to a divine purpose. That purpose necessarily},
 bookauthor = {ROBERT WUTHNOW},
 booktitle = {America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity},
 pages = {8--36},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {A Special People in a Diverse World},
 year = {2005}
}