Religious liberties : anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / Elizabeth Fenton.

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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Main Author: Fenton, Elizabeth A., 1978-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Imagining the Americas.
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