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The lively experiment : religious toleration in America from Roger Williams to the present / [edited by] Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda ; foreword by Jon Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious tolerance.
- History.
- Religion.
- United States--Religion--History.
- United States.
- Religious tolerance--United States--History.
- Religions--Relations.
- Religions.
- Relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 342 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Contents:
- Part I: Roger Williams and the Seventeenth-Century's Lively Experiments
- How Special was Rhode Island? The Global Context of the 1663 Charter / Evan Haefeli
- 'Livelie Experiment' and 'Holy Experiment' : Two Trajectories of Religious Liberty / Andrew R. Murphy
- Toleration and Tolerance in Early Modern England / Scott Sowerby
- "When the Word of The Lord Runs Freely" : Roger Williams and Evangelical Toleration / Teresa Bejan
- Part II: Toleration, Revival, and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Muslims, Toleration, and Civil Rights, from Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson / Denise Spellberg
- "An encroachment on our religious rights" : Methodist Missions, Slavery, and Religious Toleration in the British Atlantic World / Christopher C. Jones
- "Between God and our own Souls" : The Discussion over Toleration in Eighteenth-Century America / Keith Pacholl
- Part III: Divisions Within : Protestants and Catholics in the New Nation
- "Enlightened, Tolerant, and Liberal" : Mathew Carey, Catholicism and Religious Freedom in the New Republic. / Nicholas Pellegrino
- Making an American Church : Communal Toleration and Republican Governance in Early National Charleston and New York / Susanna Linsley
- The Nineteenth-Century "School Question" : An Episode in Religious Intolerance or an Expansion of Religious Freedom? / Steven K. Green
- Part IV: Pluralism and Its Discontents : Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Contests Over Religious Difference
- "There is no such thing as a reverend of no church" : Incarcerated Children, Nonsectarian Religion, and Freedom of Worship in Gilded Age New York City / Jacob Betz
- The Cost of Inclusion : Interfaith Unity and Intra-Faith Division in the Formation of Protestant-Catholic-Jewish America / David Mislin
- Dog Tags : Religious Toleration and the Politics of American Military Identification / Ronit Stahl
- Part V: Ecumenism's Paradoxes : Religious Dissent and the Redefinition of the Modern Religious Mainstream
- "This Is a Mighty Warfare that We Are Engaged In" : Pentecostals in Early Twentieth-Century New England / Evelyn Sterne
- How the Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Changed American Law and Religion / Shawn Francis Peters
- The First Mormon Moment : The Latter-Day Saints in American Culture 1940-65 / Christine Hutchison-Jones
- The National Council of Churches versus Right-Wing Radio : How the Mainline Muted the New Christian Right / Paul Matzko
- Part VI: Civil or Religious? : The New Boundaries of Religious Tolerance
- Pseudo Religion and Real Religion : The Modern Anti-Cult Movement and Religious Freedom in America / James Bennett
- America Beyond Civil Religion : The Anabaptist Experience / Kip Wedel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442248724
- 1442248726
- OCLC:
- 898066558
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