Scott Douglas Gerber is Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, and Associated Scholar at Brown University's Political Theory Project. He is the author of seven previous books and the editor of two others. In 2022, he won the inaugural Christopher Collier Prize from the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society.

• Introduction: English Law about Religious Toleration Prior to the Planting of Colonial America; 1. Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland; 2. Law and the Lively Experiment in Colonial Rhode Island; 3. Law and the Holy Experiment in Colonial Pennsylvania; 4. Law and Congregationalism in Colonial Connecticut; 5. Law and a City Upon a Hill in Colonial Massachusetts; Conclusion: Law, Religion, and Historiography in Colonial America.

'The great strength of this compelling book is its focus: what laws respecting church and state were put on books during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and what do these laws tell us about the workings of church and state? Legal history comes into its own in this source-based description of an ever-challenging subject.' David D. Hall, author of The Puritans: A Transatlantic History