The First Prejudice : : Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America /

The First Prejudice : : Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America / / ed. by Chris Beneke, Christopher S. Grenda.

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In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice-both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
MitwirkendeR:
Beneke, Chris,
Corrigan, John,
Goodfriend, Joyce D.,
Grasso, Christopher,
Grenda, Christopher S.,
Juster, Susan,
Landsman, Ned,
Murphy, Andrew R.,
Pencak, William,
Pointer, Richard W.,
Sensbach, Jon,
Stanwood, Owen,
HerausgeberIn:
Beneke, Chris,
Grenda, Christopher S.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Ideologies of Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
  • Chapter 1. Faith, Reason, and Enlightenment. The Cultural Sources of Toleration in Early America
  • Chapter 2. Amalek and the Rhetoric of Extermination
  • 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
  • Chapter 4. Practicing Toleration in Dutch New Netherland
  • Chapter 5. Heretics, Blasphemers, and Sabbath Breakers
  • Chapter 6. Persecuting Quakers?
  • PART III. The Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
  • Chapter 7. Native Freedom?
  • Chapter 8. Slaves to Intolerance
  • Chapter 9. Catholics, Protestants, and the Clash of Civilizations in Early America
  • Chapter 10. Anti-Semitism, Toleration, and Appreciation
  • PART IV. The Persistence of Tolerance and Intolerance in the New Nation
  • Chapter 11. The ''Catholic Spirit Prevailing in Our Country''
  • Chapter 12. The Boundaries of Toleration and Tolerance
  • Notes
  • Index

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