Lively Experiment

• Utgivningsdatum: 2016-12-23
• Mått: 152 x 231 x 25 mm
• Vikt: 531 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 358
• Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Medarbetare: Jon Butler
• ISBN: 9781538101704
• Utmärkelser: Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Books for 2015

• Religion: allmänt
• Amerikas historia
• Statsvetenskap och politisk teori

Chris Beneke is associate professor of history at Bentley University.Christopher S. Grenda is associate professor of history at Bronx Community College of CUNY.

The line from religious intolerance to religious tolerance to pluralism was not straight and uncomplicated. This outstanding anthology, born out of a conference celebrating the 350th anniversary of Rhode Island’s 1663 charter, provides a plethora of case studies from the Colonial era (with especially good analyses of Roger Williams, William Penn, and the Methodist relationship to slavery in the Caribbean) and the 19th century. Contributors also provide contemporary stories of ‘Mormon moments,’ the movement against ‘cults’ in the 1970s, and the liberal effort to push the religious right off the air using the Fairness Doctrine as a weapon. What is clear throughout is how much toleration has been hard for people to tolerate. ‘What people do with their religious liberty can seem downright appalling to others,’ the editors note, and the essays are full of such examples. The Rhode Island context results in multiple discussions of the complexities of Roger Williams, whose emphasis on both liberty and proselytization helps explain the ‘American polity’s unique and somewhat paradoxical combination of religious disestablishment and a religiously charged public sphere.’ Top-notch scholarship on a topic of great contemporary importance. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.

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