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The Lively Experiment : Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442248731
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Lively ExperimentDDC classification:
  • 201.50973
LOC classification:
  • BL2525 -- .L585 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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