Increasingly, that is our world today, not only in metropolitan areas, but in almost every community in America,2 even in rural areas where plurality once meant (and still does in some communities) a Baptist church, a Methodist church, and an independent break-away congregation from both of the other two. Of course, there were always those contemptible few who dared not claim any of those, as in the rural south where I grew up (these are now the fastest growing group identified in the “American Religious