The First Prejudice

Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
Herausgeber: Beneke, Chris; Grenda, Christopher S

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Produktbeschreibung

Chris Beneke is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences at Bentley University and author of Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism. Christopher S. Grenda is Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780812223149
• ISBN-10: 0812223144
• Artikelnr.: 40919973

Autorenporträt

Edited by Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
—Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda
PART I. IDEOLOGIES OF TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN EARLY AMERICA
Chapter 1. Faith, Reason, and Enlightenment: The Cultural Sources of
Toleration in Early America
—Christopher S. Grenda
Chapter 2. Amalek and the Rhetoric of Extermination
—John Corrigan
PART II. PRACTICES OF TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA
Chapter 3. The Episcopate, the British Union, and the Failure of Religious
Settlement in Colonial British America
—Ned Landsman
Chapter 4. Practicing Toleration in Dutch New Netherland
—Joyce D. Goodfriend
Chapter 5. Heretics, Blasphemers, and Sabbath Breakers: The Prosecution of
Religious Crime in Early America
—Susan Juster
Chapter 6. Persecuting Quakers? Liberty and Toleration in Early
Pennsylvania
—Andrew R. Murphy
PART III. THE BOUNDARIES OF TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN EARLY AMERICA
Chapter 7. Native Freedom? Indians and Religious Tolerance in Early America
—Richard W. Pointer
Chapter 8. Slaves to Intolerance: African American Christianity and
Religious Freedom in Early America
—Jon Sensbach
Chapter 9. Catholics, Protestants, and the Clash of Civilizations in Early
America
—Owen Stanwood
Chapter 10. Anti-Semitism, Toleration, and Appreciation: The Changing
Relations of Jews and Gentiles in Early America
—William Pencak
PART IV. THE PERSISTENCE OF TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN THE NEW NATION
Chapter 11. The ''Catholic Spirit Prevailing in Our Country'': America's
Moderate Religious Revolution
—Chris Beneke
Chapter 12. The Boundaries of Toleration and Tolerance: Religious
Infidelity in the Early American Republic
—Christopher Grasso
Notes
List of Contributors
Index