Law and religion in Colonial America : the dissenting colonies / Scott Douglas Gerber, Ohio Northern University.
2024
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Title
Law and religion in Colonial America : the dissenting colonies / Scott Douglas Gerber, Ohio Northern University.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : English Law about religious toleration prior to the planting of Colonial America
Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland
Law and the lively experiment in Colonial Rhode Island
Law and the holy experiment in Colonial Pennsylvania
Law and congregationalism in Colonial Connecticut
Law and a city upon a hill in Colonial Massachusetts
Conclusion : law, religion, and historiography in Colonial America.
Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland
Law and the lively experiment in Colonial Rhode Island
Law and the holy experiment in Colonial Pennsylvania
Law and congregationalism in Colonial Connecticut
Law and a city upon a hill in Colonial Massachusetts
Conclusion : law, religion, and historiography in Colonial America.
Summary
Law - charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions - mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons - Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts - and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.
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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
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9781009289092 (ebook)
9781009289054 (hardback)
9781009289047 (paperback)
9781009289054 (hardback)
9781009289047 (paperback)
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