Beyond Toleration : The Religious Origins of American Pluralism: The Religious Origins of American PluralismOxford University Press, USA, 2006 M09 25 - 320 páginas At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed, German Reformed, Lutherans, Huguenots, Dunkers, Jews, Moravians, and Mennonites populated the nations towns and villages. Dozens of new denominations would emerge over the succeeding years. What allowed people of so many different faiths to forge a nation together? In this richly told story of ideas, Chris Beneke demonstrates how the United States managed to overcome the religious violence and bigotry that characterized much of early modern Europe and America. The key, Beneke argues, did not lie solely in the protection of religious freedom. Instead, he reveals how American culture was transformed to accommodate the religious differences within it. The expansion of individual rights, the mixing of believers and churches in the same institutions, and the introduction of more civility into public life all played an instrumental role in creating the religious pluralism for which the United States has become renowned. These changes also established important precedents for future civil rights movements in which dignity, as much as equality, would be at stake. Beyond Toleration is the first book to offer a systematic explanation of how early Americans learned to live with differences in matters of the highest importance to them --and how they found a way to articulate these differences civilly. Today when religious conflicts once again pose a grave danger to democratic experiments across the globe, Beneke's book serves as a timely reminder of how one country moved past toleration and towards religious pluralism. |
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... am also grateful to the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society for the oppor- tunity to use their collections . This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction , 3 I. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix.
... am also grateful to the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society for the oppor- tunity to use their collections . This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction , 3 I. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix.
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... Massachusetts's Quakers , Angli- cans , and Baptists still had to go through the unpleasant ordeal of obtaining state certification before they could be freed from the religious levies that benefited other groups . The outright ...
... Massachusetts's Quakers , Angli- cans , and Baptists still had to go through the unpleasant ordeal of obtaining state certification before they could be freed from the religious levies that benefited other groups . The outright ...
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... Massachusetts. He remained as committed to the absolute truth of his faith as his persecutors were to theirs. So on March 14, 1661, William Leddra passed from this world.1 Leddra's hanging marked the last of four that occurred over a ...
... Massachusetts. He remained as committed to the absolute truth of his faith as his persecutors were to theirs. So on March 14, 1661, William Leddra passed from this world.1 Leddra's hanging marked the last of four that occurred over a ...
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... Massachusetts Bay colony been established as a Puritan refuge from the Church of England than Rhode Island was established as a dissenting refuge from Massachusetts Puritans . The Quakers who were hung on Boston Common between 1659 and ...
... Massachusetts Bay colony been established as a Puritan refuge from the Church of England than Rhode Island was established as a dissenting refuge from Massachusetts Puritans . The Quakers who were hung on Boston Common between 1659 and ...
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... Massachusetts' authorities had (as was the custom of the day) suppressed heretics so ''that they might not infect the Church, or injure the publick Peace,'' Callendar went on to assert that God had readied an ''Asy- lum'' for Massachusetts ...
... Massachusetts' authorities had (as was the custom of the day) suppressed heretics so ''that they might not infect the Church, or injure the publick Peace,'' Callendar went on to assert that God had readied an ''Asy- lum'' for Massachusetts ...
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Americas First Great Awakening | 49 |
The Ordeal of Religious Integration | 79 |
The Rise of Religious Liberty | 113 |
Religious Pluralism in the Founding of the Republic | 157 |
Mingle with Us as Americans Religious Pluralism after the Founding | 203 |
Notes | 227 |
Index | 295 |
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