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Beyond Toleration - The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Hardcover)
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Beyond Toleration - The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Hardcover)
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At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously
diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics,
Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Dutch
Reformed, German Reformed, Lutherans, Huguenots, Dunkers, Jews,
Moravians, and Mennonites populated the nations towns and villages.
Dozens of new denominations would emerge over the succeeding years.
What allowed people of so many different faiths to forge a nation
together?
In this richly told story of ideas, Chris Beneke demonstrates how
the United States managed to overcome the religious violence and
bigotry that characterized much of early modern Europe and America.
The key, Beneke argues, did not lie solely in the protection of
religious freedom. Instead, he reveals how American culture was
transformed to accommodate the religious differences within it. The
expansion of individual rights, the mixing of believers and
churches in the same institutions, and the introduction of more
civility into public life all played an instrumental role in
creating the religious pluralism for which the United States has
become renowned. These changes also established important
precedents for future civil rights movements in which dignity, as
much as equality, would be at stake.
Beyond Toleration is the first book to offer a systematic
explanation of how early Americans learned to live with differences
in matters of the highest importance to them --and how they found a
way to articulate these differences civilly. Today when religious
conflicts once again pose a grave danger to democratic experiments
across the globe, Beneke's book serves as a timely reminder of how
one country moved past toleration andtowards religious pluralism.
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