Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion

In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove makes broad claims about how religious freedom affects us. He contrasts the radical course of American developments with the more complicated ways in which Europeans tried to promote religious tolerance. He argues that bo...

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Autor principal: Rakove, Jack N. 1947- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2020
En:Año: 2020
Críticas:[Rezension von: Rakove, Jack N., 1947-, Beyond belief, beyond conscience] (2022) (Bennett, Daniel)
Colección / Revista:Inalienable Rights Ser.
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Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780195305814
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Sumario:In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove makes broad claims about how religious freedom affects us. He contrasts the radical course of American developments with the more complicated ways in which Europeans tried to promote religious tolerance. He argues that both freedom of conscience and disestablishment were critical constitutional principles whose significance we no longer fully appreciate. Rakove explains why Jefferson's and Madison's understanding of these concepts were influential to their constitutional thinking. And he examines some of our contemporary controversies over church and state from the vantage point, not of legal doctrine, but of the deeper history that gave the U.S. its unique approach to religious freedom.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Preface -- Introduction: The View from Montpelier and Monticello -- 1. The Burden of Toleration -- 2. The Liberty of Conscience and Conversion -- 3. The Revolutionary Legacy: Jefferson's and Madison's Great Project -- 4. The Democratization of Religious Freedom -- 5. An Era of Doctrines -- Notes -- Index.
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Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages)
ISBN:0190086572