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Engages readers with biographies of individuals involved in the various debates over freedom of religion.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Religious Freedoms in America The Interest of Righteousness by John Cotton A Woman Not Fit for Our Society by Anne Hutchinson Soul Liberty by Roger Williams From God and the Company by Peter Stuyvesant A Holy Experiment by William Penn American Whig by William Livingston An Equal Claim by Isaac Backus A Matter between Man and His God by Thomas Jefferson Beyond the Cognizance of Civil Society by James Madison Borrowed from the Bible by Lyman Beecher Judging the New Republic by Joseph Story Dagger John by John Hughes A Temple in the Heart by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Cry of the Oppressed by Joseph Smith An Open Gate by Isaac Mayer Wise A Constitutional Weathervane by Joseph Franklin Rutherford A Nation Made to Order by John Collier Freedoms in the Courts by Earl Warren An American Thesis by John Courtney Murray The Religious Right by Jerry Falwell Appendix 1: Minor Biographies Appendix 2: Some Important Supreme Court Cases

About the Author

Jonathan A. Wright is an independent scholar who has published on various aspects of religious history and has contributed to New Dictionary of National Biography and Dictionary of American History.