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The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
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The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
About this book
Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world's first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams' commitments to faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its conception of itself. Through crisp essays that show how Americans demolished old prejudices while inventing new ones, The Lively Experiment offers a comprehensive account of America's boisterous history of interreligious relations.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Roger Williams and the Seventeenth Century’s Lively Experiments
- Toleration, Revival, and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Divisions Within: Protestants and Catholics in the New Nation
- Pluralism and Its Discontents: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Contests over Religious Difference
- Ecumenism’s Paradoxes: Religious Dissent and the Redefinition of the Modern Religious Mainstream
- Civil or Religious? The New Boundaries of Religious Tolerance
- Index
- About the Contributors