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Beyond Toleration

The Religious Origins of American Pluralism

by Chris Beneke

  • Hardback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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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 nation's 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 accomodate 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 systemic 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 and towards religous pluralism.
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  • Author

    Chris Beneke

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    October 2006

  • Weight

    595g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195305555

  • ISBN-10

    0195305558

  • Eden Code

    1190508

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