The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America / / Frank Lambert.

• VerfasserIn: Lambert, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART ONE. Religious Regulation
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1. English Heritage
• CHAPTER 2. Transplanting the Church of England in the Chesapeake
• CHAPTER 3. Puritan Fathers and the "Christian Common-wealth"
• CHAPTER 4. A "Holy Experiment" in Religious Pluralism
• PART TWO. Religious Competition
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 5. "Trafficking for the Lord" and the Expansion of Religious Choice
• CHAPTER 6. Deists Enter the Religious Marketplace
• CHAPTER 7. Whigs and Dissenters Fight Religious Regulation
• PART THREE. Religious Freedom
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 8. The American Revolution of Religion
• CHAPTER 9. Constitutional Recognition of a Free Religious Market
• CHAPTER 10. Religion and Politics in the Presidential Campaign of 1800
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index