Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662

by Evan Haefeli

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because England's religious unity collapsed just as America was being colonized. By tying the emergence of American religious toleration to global events,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022674261X
• ISBN13: 9780226742618
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"