Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0195384091
- ISBN-13
- 9780195384093
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 191
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-08
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Authors
- Elizabeth Fenton, Elizabeth A. Fenton
Description
Early U.S. literary and 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 and pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.
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