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008			121217s2013 paua b 001 0 eng c
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020			_a9780812244939 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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035			_a(OCoLC)821217848
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050	0	0	_aBR 115 .P7 S2735 2013
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100	1		_aSchlereth, Eric R.
245	1	3	_aAn age of infidels : _bthe politics of religious controversy in the early United States / _cEric R. Schlereth.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c�2013.
300			_a295 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEarly American studies
500			_aBased on the author's thesis from Brandeis Univ., 2008.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-282) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : Remaking religion -- 1. Boundaries -- 2. America's Deist future -- 3. Citizen Deists -- 4. Partisan religious truths -- 5. America's Deist past -- 6. Free enquiry -- 7. Political religion, political irreligion -- Epilogue : The origins of American cultural politics.
520			_a"Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans--both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics--struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing so, he casts new light on the ways Americans reconciled their varied religious beliefs with political change at a formative moment in the nation's cultural life. After the American Revolution, citizens of the new nation felt no guarantee that they would avoid the mire of religious and political conflict that had gripped much of Europe for three centuries. Debates thus erupted in the new United States about how or even if long-standing religious beliefs, institutions, and traditions could be accommodated within a new republican political order that encouraged suspicion of inherited traditions. Public life in the period included contentious arguments over the best way to ensure a compatible relationship between diverse religious beliefs and the nation's recent political developments. In the process, religion and politics in the early United States were remade to fit each other. From the 1770s onward, Americans created a political rather than legal boundary between acceptable and unacceptable religious expression, one defined in reference to infidelity. Conflicts occurred most commonly between deists and their opponents who perceived deists' anti-Christian opinions as increasingly influential in American culture and politics. Exploring these controversies, Schlereth explains how Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty."--Publisher's description.
650		0	_aChristianity and politics _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aChristianity and culture _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aChristianity and other religions _zUnited States.
650		0	_aChurch and state _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aDeism _zUnited States _xHistory.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1783-1865.
650		7	_aChristianity and culture. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00859660
650		7	_aChristianity and other religions. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00859685
650		7	_aChristianity and politics. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00859736
650		7	_aChurch and state. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00860509
650		7	_aDeism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00889874
650		7	_aPolitical science. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069781
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650		7	_aReligionspolitik. _2gnd
650		7	_aKirche. _2gnd
650		7	_aStaat. _2gnd
650		7	_aGlaubensfreiheit. _2gnd
651		7	_aUSA. _2gnd
650		7	_aChristianisme et politique _z�Etats-Unis _xHistoire. _2ram
650		7	_aChristianisme et culture _z�Etats-Unis _xHistoire. _2ram
650		7	_a�Eglise et �Etat _z�Etats-Unis _xHistoire. _2ram
650		7	_aD�eisme _z�Etats-Unis _xHistoire. _2ram
651		7	_a�Etats-Unis _xPolitique et gouvernement _y1783-1865. _2ram
648		7	_a1783 - 1865 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830		0	_aEarly American studies.
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