Accidental pluralism : America and the religious politics of English expansion, 1497-1662 / Evan Haefeli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haefeli, Evan, 1969- author.

Series:

American beginnings, 1500-1900.

Chicago scholarship online.

American beginnings, 1500-1900

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious pluralism--United States--History.

Religious pluralism.

Religious tolerance--United States--History.

Religious tolerance.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Religion.

Great Britain.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public arguments over the religious and political values that define it. In this book, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because England's religious unity collapsed just as America was being colonised. By tying the emergence of American religious toleration to global events, Haefeli creates a true transnationalist history that links developing American realities to political and social conflicts and resolutions in Europe, showing how the relationships among states, churches, and publics was contested from the beginning of the colonial era and produced a society that no one had anticipated.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

PART 1 Tudor- Stuart Foundations, 1497– ca. 1607

1. Colonization: Religion, Expansion, Guiana, and Slavery

2. Conformity: Religious Change, Obedience, and Virginia

3. Jurisdiction: Ireland, Scotland, and the Limits of Authority

4. Dissent: En glish Papists, Puritans, and Others

PART 2 Jacobean Balance, ca. 1607– 1625

5. Balance: Virginia, Bermuda, Newfoundland, ca. 1607– 1618

6. Polarization: Plymouth, Avalon, Nova Scotia, New England, 1618– 1625

PART 3 Caroline Transformation, 1625– 1638

7. Favorites: Saint Christopher, Barbados, Maryland, 1624– 1632

8. Puritans: New England, Providence Island, the Leewards, 1629– 1638

9. Catholics: Montserrat, New Albion, Maryland, 1632– 1638

PART 4 Civil Wars, 1638– 1649

10. Fragmentation: Rhode Island, Madras, Trinidad, 1638– 1643

11. Toleration: New England, Bermuda, Madagascar, 1643– 1646

12. Revolution: New England, the Bahamas, Barbados, the Leewards, 1647– 1649

PART 5 Commonwealth, 1649– 1660

13. Republic: New England, the Caribbean, Acadia, 1649– 1654

14. Empire: Surinam, Barbados, Jamaica, Dunkirk, 1654– 1660

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Transcriptions, Dates, Sources, and Terminology

Notes

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

0-226-74275-X

OCLC:

1243537110