Religious liberties [electronic resource] : anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / Elizabeth Fenton.

By:

Fenton, Elizabeth A, 1978-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Imagining the AmericasPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780199893584 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

810.938282 22

LOC classification:

PS217.P54

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: Early U.S. literary & cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom & pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.

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Early U.S. literary & cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom & pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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