Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
Eric Michael Mazur’s dissertation (supervised by Phillip E. Hammond) argues that minority religious communities have had to “subordinate their distinct theological beliefs to the transcending principles of the majority articulated by the constitutional order, or they are forced to do so by the physical powers of the government” (p. xxv). To support this argument, he takes an empirical approach and focuses on the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons), and Native American religious traditions.
Recommended Citation
82 J. Religion 313 (2002) (reviewing Eric Michael Mazur, The Americanization of Religious Minorities (1999)).