Peter Gottschalk

American Heretics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

American Heretics traces the arc of American religious discrimination. Through each religion's unique history, the book shows that groups from Quakers to Judaism have been subjected to similar persecution. Today, many of these are embraced - giving hope to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and others now under fire.

A journey through American history that reveals an unsettling pattern of religious intolerance, from colonial anti-Quaker sentiment to modern-day Islamophobia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781137278296
• ISBN-10: 1137278293
• Artikelnr.: 37749502

Autorenporträt

Peter Gottschalk; Foreword by Martin E. Marty

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Heretics! Blasphemers! Witches!: Quakers in Colonial America
Chapter Two: Legal Impositions: Fear of Mormon Law in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century
Chapter Three: Heathens: The Sioux and the Ghost Dance
Chapter Four: UnAmerican and UnChristian: Irish Catholics
Chapter Five: Jews in the Eyes of the Ku Klux Klan and Henry Ford
Chapter Six: It's Not a Religion, It's a Cult: The Branch Davidians
Chapter Seven: All of the Above: Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment
Today
Conclusion: How We Can Do Better