03499nam 2200577 450 991078814990332120170822123118.01-5381-0170-X1-4422-4873-4(CKB)2670000000602688(EBL)1996185(SSID)ssj0001459321(PQKBManifestationID)12611402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001459321(PQKBWorkID)11456207(PQKB)11220302(MiAaPQ)EBC1996185(EXLCZ)99267000000060268820141118h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe lively experiment religious toleration in America from Roger Williams to the present /[edited by] Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda ; foreword by Jon ButlerLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,[2015]©20151 online resource (360 p.)Includes index.1-4422-4872-6 1-336-21625-5 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<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>Religious toleranceUnited StatesHistoryReligionsRelationsUnited StatesReligionHistoryReligious toleranceHistory.ReligionsRelations.201/.50973Beneke Chris(Christopher J.),Grenda Christopher S.Butler JohnMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788149903321The lively experiment3709547UNINA