Religious freedom : the contested history of an American ideal /
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were c...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion : Race, empire, and the multiplicities of religious freedom.