TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beneke,Chris
AU  - Grenda,Christopher S.
AU  - Butler,Jon
AU  - Bejan,Teresa
AU  - Bennett,James B.
AU  - Betz,Jacob
AU  - Green,Steven
AU  - Haefeli,Evan
AU  - Hutchison-Jones,Cristine T.
AU  - Jones,Christopher C.
TI  - The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
SN  - 9781442248731
AV  - BL2525 -- .L585 2015eb 
U1  - 201.50973 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Religions -- Relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- 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 Nation -- 8 "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 Religion -- 16 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
N2  - The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains a core tenet of the American way of life
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