The lively experiment : religious toleration in America from Roger Williams to the present / / [edited by] Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda ; foreword by Jon Butler

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.50973
• Soggetto topico: Religious tolerance - United States - History; Religions - Relations
• Soggetto geografico: United States Religion History
• Persona (resp. second.): BenekeChris (Christopher J.); GrendaChristopher S.; ButlerJohn
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: The lively experiment
• ISBN: 1-5381-0170-X; 1-4422-4873-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819577703321
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