Title: Religious liberties
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.
Subjects: Democracy in literature, Cultural pluralism in literature, Religion and literature, Liberalism in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Anti-Catholicism in literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Anti-catholicism, Liberty in literature
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century