Record Nr.

UNINA9910463513203321

Autore

Schlereth Eric R

Titolo

An age of infidels [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of religious controversy in the early United States / / Eric R. Schlereth

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8122-2415-9

0-8122-0825-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Early American Studies

Early American studies

Disciplina

322/.1097309034

Soggetti

Christianity and politics - United States - History

Christianity and culture - United States - History

Christianity and other religions - United States

Church and state - United States - History

Deism - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis from Brandeis Univ., 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Remaking Religion -- Chapter 1. Boundaries -- Chapter 2. America’s Deist Future -- Chapter 3. Citizen Deists -- Chapter 4. Partisan Religious Truths -- Chapter 5. America’s Deist Past -- Chapter 6. Free Enquiry -- Chapter 7. Political Religion, Political Irreligion -- Epilogue. The Origins of American Cultural Politics -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing so, he casts new light on the ways Americans reconciled their varied religious beliefs with political change at a formative moment in the nation's cultural life. After the American Revolution, citizens of the new nation felt no guarantee that they would

avoid the mire of religious and political conflict that had gripped much of Europe for three centuries. Debates thus erupted in the new United States about how or even if long-standing religious beliefs, institutions, and traditions could be accommodated within a new republican political order that encouraged suspicion of inherited traditions. Public life in the period included contentious arguments over the best way to ensure a compatible relationship between diverse religious beliefs and the nation's recent political developments. In the process, religion and politics in the early United States were remade to fit each other. From the 1770's onward, Americans created a political rather than legal boundary between acceptable and unacceptable religious expression, one defined in reference to infidelity. Conflicts occurred most commonly between deists and their opponents who perceived deists' anti-Christian opinions as increasingly influential in American culture and politics. Exploring these controversies, Schlereth explains how Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698964003321

Autore

Faulkner Sandra McDermott

Titolo

Russian American theme, national historic landmarks [[electronic resource] /] / compiled by Sandra McDermott Faulkner, William S. Hanable, Robert L.S. Spude

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Anchorage, Alaska : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Alaska Region, , 1987

Descrizione fisica

ix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 28 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

HanableWilliam S

SpudeRobert L. S