Gottschalk, Peter,  1963- <br/><br/>
American heretics :  Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and the history of religious intolerance / 
Peter Gottschalk ; forward by Martin E. Marty. 
 - xiv, 242 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137278296 1137278293 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013019003 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religious discrimination--History.--United States<br/>Religious tolerance--History.--United States<br/>Religions--Relations.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Religion--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL 2525  / .G687 2013