The First Prejudice
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
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 exploration of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve essays in this volume were composed by leading historians with an eye to the larger significance of religious tolerance and intolerance. Individual chapters examine the prosecution of religious crimes, the biblical sources of tolerance and intolerance, the British imperial context…
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Weitere Autoren: Grenda, Christopher S. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0489-6
- EAN: 9780812204896
- Produktnummer: 13904153
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'893 KB
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Edited by Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda
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