Chris Beneke is professor of History and Associate Dean for the First Year Experience and the Bentley Core at Bentley University. He has written extensively about the history of religious toleration, as well as essays on politics, religion, and sports for The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.

• PREFACEINTRODUCTIONONE. ChangesTWO. Duties THREE. CrueltiesFOUR. CivilitiesFIVE. InequalitiesSIX. InfidelsEPILOGUE

Beneke has accomplished the notable goal of writing a thoroughly researched yet agile synthesis of state-of-the-art First Amendment history for specialists and an accessible introduction for nonspecialists and even undergraduate students to the field of religion and constitutional history and some of its key debates-in one brisk volume.

Chris Beneke is professor of History and Associate Dean for the First Year Experience and the Bentley Core at Bentley University. He has written extensively about the history of religious toleration, as well as essays on politics, religion, and sports for The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.

• PREFACEINTRODUCTIONONE. ChangesTWO. Duties THREE. CrueltiesFOUR. CivilitiesFIVE. InequalitiesSIX. InfidelsEPILOGUE

Beneke has accomplished the notable goal of writing a thoroughly researched yet agile synthesis of state-of-the-art First Amendment history for specialists and an accessible introduction for nonspecialists and even undergraduate students to the field of religion and constitutional history and some of its key debates-in one brisk volume.

Chris Beneke is professor of History and Associate Dean for the First Year Experience and the Bentley Core at Bentley University. He has written extensively about the history of religious toleration, as well as essays on politics, religion, and sports for The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.

• PREFACEINTRODUCTIONONE. ChangesTWO. Duties THREE. CrueltiesFOUR. CivilitiesFIVE. InequalitiesSIX. InfidelsEPILOGUE

Beneke has accomplished the notable goal of writing a thoroughly researched yet agile synthesis of state-of-the-art First Amendment history for specialists and an accessible introduction for nonspecialists and even undergraduate students to the field of religion and constitutional history and some of its key debates-in one brisk volume.