RT Book
T1 Free exercise: religion, the First Amendment, and the making of America
A1 Beneke, Chris 1972-
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1908360259
AB "Free Exercise is a contribution to both US constitutional history and the history of religious toleration in the United States. It traces the routes by which Americans arrived at the First Amendment's religious clauses, the cultural currents that shaped their meaning, and the consequences that flowed from them. The book also demonstrates how white women, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, and nonbelievers expanded the application of religious liberty-and illuminated its boundaries. Each chapter demonstrates how protections for religious freedom were forged from both vague memories and intimate experiences, an emergent respect for individual autonomy and a refusal to materially alter the condition of women and the enslaved"--Publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR516
SN 978-0-19-776702-3
SN 0-19-776702-8
K1 Freedom Of Religion : United States : History
K1 Religious Pluralism : United States : History
K1 Constitutional history : United States
K1 Liberté religieuse - États-Unis - Histoire
K1 Histoire constitutionnelle - États-Unis