Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662
The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because Eng...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Haefeli, Evan, 1969-, Accidental pluralism] (2023) (Schroeder, Joshua R.)
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| Series/Journal: | American Beginnings, 1500-1900
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Religious pluralism
/ USA
/ History 1497-1662
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| RelBib Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious pluralism-History-United States
B Generals / HISTORY B Puritanism B colonization B Religious Pluralism (United States) History B United States-History-Religion B Religious tolerance-History-United States B English Civil War B Roman Catholicism B toleration B Religious Tolerance (United States) History |
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| Summary: | The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because England’s religious unity collapsed just as America was being colonized. By tying the emergence of American religious toleration to global events, Haefeli creates a true transnationalist history that links developing American realities to political and social conflicts and resolutions in Europe, showing how the relationships among states, churches, and publics were contested from the beginning of the colonial era and produced a society that no one had anticipated. Accidental Pluralism is an ambitious and comprehensive new account of the origins of American religious life that compels us to refine our narratives about what came to be seen as American values and their distinct relationship to religion and politics |
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| ISBN: | 022674275X |
| Access: | Restricted Access |