Religious liberties [electronic resource] : anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture /
by Fenton, Elizabeth A.
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BookSeries: Imagining the Americas: Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199893584 (ebook) :.Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Cultural pluralism in literature | Anti-Catholicism in literature | Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Liberalism in literature | Democracy in literatureOnline 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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