Sacred liberty : America's long, bloody, and ongoing struggle for religious freedom / Steven Waldman.
Waldman, Steven, author.
2019
BR516 .W28 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Sacred liberty : America's long, bloody, and ongoing struggle for religious freedom / Steven Waldman.
Author Waldman, Steven, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780062743145 (hardcover)
0062743147 (hardcover)
Published New York, NY : HarperOne, [2019]
Language English
Description ix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number BR516 .W28 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.44/20973
Summary "Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses. American leaders drove religious freedom forward--figures like James Madison, George Washington, the World War II presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower) and even George W. Bush. But the biggest heroes were the regular Americans--people like Mary Dyer, Marie Barnett and W.D. Mohammed--who risked their lives or reputations by demanding to practice their faiths freely."--Page [2] of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-388) and index.
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Failed experiments
Madison's model
The startup boom
The Romish threat
The religious freedom of slaves
The divine plan
The Mormon challenge
Kill the Indian, Christianize the man
The KKK, Al Smith, and the fight for the public schools
The witnesses
World War II and the Judeo-Christians
Enter the Supreme Court
"Alien blood"
Political bedfellows
The "war" on "Christianity"
All-American Islam
"An enemy inside our perimeter"
Preserving religious freedom.

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