This article examines the contested nature of American efforts to expand America’s twentieth century notion tri-faith idealism—the unity three monotheistic faiths Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism—to include Muslims both at home abroad. It does so through a contextual, historical study construction dedication Islamic Center Washington. The ultimately proved lightning rod that electrified ...

M. Weber (1947) proposed that exposure to Calvinist Protestantism is associated with limited attention to relational concerns in work settings. Two experiments provide support for this proposition. Study 1 showed that Protestant European Americans raised in traditions of Calvinism were less attentive to affect in spoken words when primed with a work context relative to a nonwork context, and to...

Both contemporaries and historians have focused on the high-profile 1874 Belfast Address in which John Tyndall was widely perceived as promulgating atheism. Although some historians have instead interpreted him as a pantheist or an agnostic, it is clear that any such labels do not accurately capture Tyndall’s religious position throughout his life. By contrast, this paper seeks to chart Tyndall...