Eric R. Schlereth

An Age of Infidels

The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public life. This history recasts the origins of cultural politics in the United States by exploring how everyday Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty.

Produktdetails

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224153
• ISBN-10: 0812224159
• Artikelnr.: 49954231

Autorenporträt

Eric R. Schlereth

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Remaking Religion
Chapter 1. Boundaries
Chapter 2. America's Deist Future
Chapter 3. Citizen Deists
Chapter 4. Partisan Religious Truths
Chapter 5. America's Deist Past
Chapter 6. Free Enquiry
Chapter 7. Political Religion, Political Irreligion
Epilogue. The Origins of American Cultural Politics
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments