The first prejudice [[electronic resource] ] : religious tolerance and intolerance in early America / / edited by Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 277.3/07
• Soggetto topico: Religious tolerance; Freedom of religion; Prejudices - Religious aspects
• Soggetto geografico: United States Church history 17th century; United States Church history 18th century; United States Religion To 1800
• Soggetto non controllato: American History; American Studies; Religion; Religious Studies
• Classificazione: NO 2300
• Altri autori: BenekeChris (Christopher J.) GrendaChristopher S
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pt. I. Ideologies of tolerance and intolerance in early America. Faith, reason, and enlightenment: the cultural sources of toleration in early America / Christopher S. Grenda -- Amalek and the rhetoric of extermination / John Corrigan -- ; pt. II. Practices of tolerance and intolerance in Colonial British America. The episcopate, the British union, and the failure of religious settlement in colonial British America / Ned Landsman -- Practicing toleration in Dutch New Netherland / Joyce D. Goodfriend -- Heretics, blasphemers, and Sabbath breakers: the prosecution of religious crime in early America / Susan Juster -- Persecuting Quakers?: liberty and toleration in early Pennsylvania / Andrew R. Murphy -- ; ; pt. III. The boundaries of tolerance and intolerance in early America. Native freedom?: Indians and religious tolerance in early America / Richard W. Pointer -- Slaves to intolerance: African American Christianity and religious freedom in early America / Jon Sensbach -- Catholics, Protestants, and the clash of civilizations in early America / Owen Stanwood -- Anti-Semitism, toleration, and appreciation : the changing relations of Jews and Gentiles in early America / William Pencak -- ; pt. IV. The persistence of tolerance and intolerance in the new nation. The "catholic spirit prevailing in our country": America's moderate religious revolution / Chris Benek -- The boundaries of toleration and tolerance: religious infidelity in the early American republic / Christopher Grasso.
• Sommario/riassunto: In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice-both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve essays in this volume were composed by leading historians with an eye to the larger significance of religious tolerance and intolerance. Individual chapters examine the prosecution of religious crimes, the biblical sources of tolerance and intolerance, the British imperial context of toleration, the bounds of Native American spiritual independence, the nuances of anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism, the resilience of African American faiths, and the challenges confronted by skeptics and freethinkers. The First Prejudice presents a revealing portrait of the rhetoric, regulations, and customs that shaped the relationships between people of different faiths in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. It relates changes in law and language to the lived experience of religious conflict and religious cooperation, highlighting the crucial ways in which they molded U.S. culture and politics. By incorporating a broad range of groups and religious differences in its accounts of tolerance and intolerance, The First Prejudice opens a significant new vista on the understanding of America's long experience with diversity.
• Titolo autorizzato: The first prejudice
• ISBN: 1-283-89649-4; 0-8122-0489-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788582003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Early American studies.