From Coercion to Persuasion: Another Look at the Rise of Religious Liberty and the Emergence of Denominationalism

So far as religious affairs are concerned, the colonial period of our history begins with the planting of the first permanent English colony in 1607, guided by the intention to perpetuate in the new land the religious patterns to which the mother country had grown accustomed. Chief of these for our...

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Main Author: Mead, Sidney E. 1904-1999 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1956
In: Church history
Year: 1956, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 317-337
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Summary:So far as religious affairs are concerned, the colonial period of our history begins with the planting of the first permanent English colony in 1607, guided by the intention to perpetuate in the new land the religious patterns to which the mother country had grown accustomed. Chief of these for our purposes was uniformity enforced by the civil power. The period culminates just 180 years later with the complete rejection of this central intention in the provisions for national religious freedom in the Constitution (1787) and First Amendment (1791).
ISSN:1755-2613
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3161952