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Religious freedom : the contested history of an American ideal /

Religious freedom is often presented as a timeless American ideal, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued work. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented throug...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wenger, Tisa Joy, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making the imperial subject : Protestants, Catholics, and Jews
  • Making empire in the Philippines : Filipinos, Moros, and the ambivalence of religious freedom
  • Making religion on the reservation : Native Americans and the settler secular
  • Making American whiteness : Jewish identity and the tri-faith movement
  • Defining a people : African Americans and the racial limits of religious freedom.