Religious liberties
Subtitle: anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture
By: Elizabeth Fenton
Series: Imagining the Americas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780195384093
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Privacy, pluralism, and anti-Catholic democracy; title: Catholic Canadians and Protestant pluralism in the early republic; title: Pleas for democracy: Federalism, expansionism, and nativism; title: Papal persuasions: religious conversion and deliberative democracy; title: This is my body politic: Catholic democracy and the limits of representation; title: Haitian Catholicism and the end of pluralism; title: Losing faith: ultramontane liberalism and democratic failure.