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

Author/Creator:

Butler, John, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Beneke, Chris (Christopher J.), editor.

Grenda, Christopher S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious tolerance--United States--History.

Religious tolerance.

Religions--Relations.

Religions.

United States--Religion--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>The case studies of religious toleration gathered here offer an illuminating introduction to the historical vagaries of this contested ideal. Rather than proposing a linear narrative of progress, they shed light on the complex ambiguities and tensions endemic to how Americans have tried to put the abstract principle of toleration into practice.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Roger Williams and the Seventeenth Century's Lively Experiments; 1 How Special Was Rhode Island?; 2 "Livelie Experiment" and "Holy Experiment"; 3 Toleration and Tolerance in Early Modern England; 4 "When the Word of the Lord Runs Freely"; Part II: Toleration, Revival, and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century; 5 Muslims, Toleration, and Civil Rights from Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson; 6 "An encroachment on our religious rights"; 7 "Between God and our own Souls"

Part III: Divisions Within: Protestants and Catholics in the New Nation8 "Enlightened, Tolerant, and Liberal"; 9 Making an American Church; 10 The Nineteenth-Century "School Question"; Part IV: Pluralism and Its Discontents: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Contests over Religious Difference; 11 "There is no such thing as a reverend of no church"; 12 The Cost of Inclusion; 13 Dog Tags; Part V: Ecumenism's Paradoxes: Religious Dissent and the Redefinition of the Modern Religious Mainstream; 14 "This Is a Mighty Warfare That We Are Engaged In"

15 How the Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Changed American Law and Religion16 The First Mormon Moment; 17 The National Council of Churches versus Right-Wing Radio; Part VI: Civil or Religious? The New Boundaries of Religious Tolerance; 18 Pseudo Religion and Real Religion; 19 America beyond Civil Religion; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-21575-2

1-5381-0170-X

1-4422-4873-4