Gerber Law and Religion in Colonial America

The Dissenting Colonies
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-28908-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerber, Scott Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: English Law about Religious Toleration Prior to the Planting of Colonial America; 1. Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland; 2. Law and the Lively Experiment in Colonial Rhode Island; 3. Law and the Holy Experiment in Colonial Pennsylvania; 4. Law and Congregationalism in Colonial Connecticut; 5. Law and a City Upon a Hill in Colonial Massachusetts; Conclusion: Law, Religion, and Historiography in Colonial America.

Über Autor(innen)

Gerber, Scott Douglas
Scott Douglas Gerber is Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, and Associated Scholar at Brown University's Political Theory Project. He is the author of seven previous books and the editor of two others. In 2022, he won the inaugural Christopher Collier Prize from the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society.