The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present 9781442248731, 9781442248724

Beginning with the legacy of Roger Williams, who in 1633 founded the first colony not restricted to people of one faith,

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The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
9781442248731, 9781442248724

In this beautiful and feelingly written book, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of Roger Williams: the most compelling fig

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This book presents the issues, controversies, and key players that formed and enabled the American college and universit

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Impeachment shows that gerrymandering and voter suppression have a

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Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives—precise m

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Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a history of toleration from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.

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In Taxes on Knowledge in America, Randall P. Bezanson explores the extent to which the publication and distribution of c

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The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to

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Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eig

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Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradit

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Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke

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