American heretics : Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and the history of religious intolerance / Peter Gottschalk ; forward by Martin E. Marty.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York , NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137278296
  • 1137278293
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL 2525 .G687 2013
Contents:
Heretics! Blasphemers! Witches!: Quakers in Colonial America -- Un-American and Un-Christian: Irish Catholics -- Heathens: The Sioux and the Ghost Dance -- A Race Apart: Jews in the Eyes of the Ku Klux Klan, Henry Ford, and the Government -- Fanatics: Secular Fears and Mormon Political Candidates from Joseph Smith Jr. to Mitt Romney -- It's Not a Religion, It's a Cult: The Branch Davidians -- The Sum of All Fears: Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment Today.
Summary: Traces the arc of American religious discrimination, revealing a disturbing pattern of religious intolerance, from colonial anti-Quaker sentiment and Judaism to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious groups under fire.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.

Traces the arc of American religious discrimination, revealing a disturbing pattern of religious intolerance, from colonial anti-Quaker sentiment and Judaism to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious groups under fire.

Heretics! Blasphemers! Witches!: Quakers in Colonial America -- Un-American and Un-Christian: Irish Catholics -- Heathens: The Sioux and the Ghost Dance -- A Race Apart: Jews in the Eyes of the Ku Klux Klan, Henry Ford, and the Government -- Fanatics: Secular Fears and Mormon Political Candidates from Joseph Smith Jr. to Mitt Romney -- It's Not a Religion, It's a Cult: The Branch Davidians -- The Sum of All Fears: Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment Today.

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