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  • The First Prejudice

    Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America

    Edited by Chris Beneke, Christopher S. Grenda ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice—both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve essays in this volume were ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Lively Experiment

    Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present

    by Teresa Bejan, Jacob Betz, Steven Green, Evan Haefeli, Susanna Linsley, David Mislin, Keith Pacholl, Nicholas Pellegrino, Scott Sowerby, Ronit Stahl, Evelyn Sterne, James B. Bennett, Cristine T. Hutchison-Jones, Christopher C. Jones, Paul E. Matzko, Andrew R. Murphy, Shawn F. Peters, Denise A. Spellberg, Kip A. Wedel ...
    Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world’s first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams’ commitments to faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its conception ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Profane

    Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age

    Edited by Christopher S. Grenda ...
    Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concerning blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The First Prejudice

    Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America

    Edited by Chris Beneke, Christopher S. Grenda ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice—both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve essays in this volume were ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Religious History of America

    The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today

    by Edwin S. Gaustad, Leigh Schmidt ...
    "A comprehensive, graceful narrative that truly represents the pluralism, momentum, and vitality of American religious life." —Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University, author of Conceived in DoubtIn this landmark work, award-winning Princeton historian Leigh Schmidt teams up with Edwin Gaustad—a scholar "in the front rank of American religious historians" ( The New York Times)—to produce a ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Puritanism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Francis J. Bremer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    **The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning classic.“One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book.” —New York Times Book Review**“[This book] influenced an entire generation of historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution.” —Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street JournalAwarded both the Pulitzer and the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their interpretations of slavery in Scripture led to a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • America's God

    From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years"An excellent study that will help historians appreciate the importance of Christianity in the history of the United States and Canada." – The Journal of American History"Scholars and general readers alike will gain unique insights into the multifaceted character of Christianity in its New World environment. Nothing ... Read more

    $87.12 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Enlarged Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This ... Read more

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  • The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

    by Frank Lambert ...
    How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency.Lambert ... Read more

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