LEADER 04482nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910809331103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-2415-9 010 $a0-8122-0825-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208252 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060364 035 $a(OCoLC)859160762 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748481 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000885380 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11548555 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885380 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10947416 035 $a(PQKB)10218867 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24674 035 $a(DE-B1597)449684 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748481 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442092 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060364 100 $a20121217d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn age of infidels $ethe politics of religious controversy in the early United States /$fEric R. Schlereth 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 225 0$aEarly American studies 300 $aBased on the author's thesis from Brandeis Univ., 2008. 311 $a1-322-51235-3 311 $a0-8122-4493-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Remaking Religion --$tChapter 1. Boundaries --$tChapter 2. America?s Deist Future --$tChapter 3. Citizen Deists --$tChapter 4. Partisan Religious Truths --$tChapter 5. America?s Deist Past --$tChapter 6. Free Enquiry --$tChapter 7. Political Religion, Political Irreligion --$tEpilogue. The Origins of American Cultural Politics --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aHistorian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans?both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics?struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing so, he casts new light on the ways Americans reconciled their varied religious beliefs with political change at a formative moment in the nation's cultural life. After the American Revolution, citizens of the new nation felt no guarantee that they would avoid the mire of religious and political conflict that had gripped much of Europe for three centuries. Debates thus erupted in the new United States about how or even if long-standing religious beliefs, institutions, and traditions could be accommodated within a new republican political order that encouraged suspicion of inherited traditions. Public life in the period included contentious arguments over the best way to ensure a compatible relationship between diverse religious beliefs and the nation's recent political developments. In the process, religion and politics in the early United States were remade to fit each other. From the 1770's onward, Americans created a political rather than legal boundary between acceptable and unacceptable religious expression, one defined in reference to infidelity. Conflicts occurred most commonly between deists and their opponents who perceived deists' anti-Christian opinions as increasingly influential in American culture and politics. Exploring these controversies, Schlereth explains how Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and other religions$zUnited States 606 $aChurch and state$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aDeism$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and other religions 615 0$aChurch and state$xHistory. 615 0$aDeism$xHistory. 676 $a322/.1097309034 700 $aSchlereth$b Eric R$01693466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809331103321 996 $aAn age of infidels$94071268 997 $aUNINA