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The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
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2015
Summary
Beginning with the legacy of Roger Williams, who in 1633 founded the first colony not restricted to people of one faith, The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. The chapters gathered here reveal how Americans are sensitively attuned to irony and contradiction, to unanticipated eruptions of bigotry and unheralded acts of decency, and to the disruption caused by new movements and the reassurance supplied by old divisions. The authors examine the way ethnicity, race, and imperialism have been woven into the fabric of interreligious relations and highlight how currents of tolerance and intolerance have rippled in multiple directions. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains a core tenet of the American way of life. This volume honors this boisterous tradition by offering the first comprehensive account of America’s vibrant and often tumultuous history of interreligious relations.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-0170-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4873-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
342
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 How Special Was Rhode Island? No access
2 “Livelie Experiment” and “Holy Experiment” No access
3 Toleration and Tolerance in Early Modern England No access
4 “When the Word of the Lord Runs Freely” No access
5 Muslims, Toleration, and Civil Rights from Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson No access
6 “An encroachment on our religious rights” No access
7 “Between God and our own Souls” No access
8 “Enlightened, Tolerant, and Liberal” No access
9 Making an American Church No access
10 The Nineteenth-Century “School Question” No access
11 “There is no such thing as a reverend of no church” No access
12 The Cost of Inclusion No access
13 Dog Tags No access
14 “This Is a Mighty Warfare That We Are Engaged In” No access
15 How the Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses Changed American Law and Religion No access
16 The First Mormon Moment No access
17 The National Council of Churches versus Right-Wing Radio No access
