The myth of American religious freedom [electronic resource] / David Sehat.

The myth of American religious freedom [electronic resource] / David Sehat.

9780199792573 (electronic bk.)
9780195388763
0195388763

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

English

1 online resource (viii, 356 pages)

BR516 .S43 2010eb

261.7/20973

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents.

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