L'exceptionnelle vitalité religieuse aux Etats-Unis: une relecture de Protestant-Catholic-Jew.

The article argues that a major factor in the absence of a labor party in the U.S. stems from the strength of ethnoreligious identity. As a leading modern industrial society, the U.S. is exceptional in the diversity and vitality of its religious life. Tocqueville had already made this observation in Democracy in America. As Herberg noted in Protestant-Catholic-Jew, religion and ethnicity came together at the turn of the century to provide an important category of social identity to new groups of immigrants, To further the analysis of Tocqueville and Herberg, this paper considers that for Protestants, Catholics and Jews, respectively, the U.S. experience has been exceptional.