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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... persecution . We have to recall that most early modern governments treated dissenters from their state- sponsored church establishments as criminals . Religious minorities could be imprisoned , exiled , or even whipped , branded , and ...
... persecution . We have to recall that most early modern governments treated dissenters from their state- sponsored church establishments as criminals . Religious minorities could be imprisoned , exiled , or even whipped , branded , and ...
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... persecution of small , marginal churches continued until the last third of the century . European governments generally went no farther in the eighteenth century . But in America , the legal revolution did not stop at toleration . As ...
... persecution of small , marginal churches continued until the last third of the century . European governments generally went no farther in the eighteenth century . But in America , the legal revolution did not stop at toleration . As ...
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... persecution of the past and established important precedents for the future . 6 The latter , cultural , revolution will receive the most attention in this book . The legal changes that brought toleration and religious freedom to the ...
... persecution of the past and established important precedents for the future . 6 The latter , cultural , revolution will receive the most attention in this book . The legal changes that brought toleration and religious freedom to the ...
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... persecution of eighteenth-century Catholics presents one of the more glaring exceptions to the argument being advanced here. Anti-Catholicism possessed a long and venerable tradition within Anglo-American culture, and remained vibrant ...
... persecution of eighteenth-century Catholics presents one of the more glaring exceptions to the argument being advanced here. Anti-Catholicism possessed a long and venerable tradition within Anglo-American culture, and remained vibrant ...
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... persecution that had prevailed across much of northwestern Europe and colonial America for the previous century and a half , the change is stunning . Until the beginning of the eigh- teenth century , religious differences had always ...
... persecution that had prevailed across much of northwestern Europe and colonial America for the previous century and a half , the change is stunning . Until the beginning of the eigh- teenth century , religious differences had always ...
Contenido
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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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Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism Chris Beneke Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism Chris Beneke Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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