American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance - Hardcover

Gottschalk, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137278293 ISBN 13: 9781137278296

Verlag: SMP, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

A journey through American history that reveals an unsettling pattern of religious intolerance, from colonial anti-Quaker sentiment to modern-day Islamophobia

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"This book is a fascinating historical journey for anyone with an interest in history, religion and community." --Press Association "Eclectic examples from the ample album of bigotry in American democracy." --Kirkus Reviews "A must read in a 21st century when religious pluralism and religious intolerance are a global challenge. Peter Gottschalk's American Heretics is a unique and powerful study and critique, a corrective to many American's amnesia about our past history of religious intolerance and, in his last chapter, a wakeup call to 'The Sum of All Fears: Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment.'" --John L. Esposito, author of The Future of Islam and Islamophobia and the Challenge of Pluralism. "American Heretics is a heartfelt plea to Americans to take responsibility for their xenophobia and racism. Gottschalk is relentless in presenting the grimy shame of U.S. nativism, giving new detail to both past and current events we thought we knew, all the while insisting that all Americans share in this shame." --Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

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In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots during elections, tarred and feathered their political enemies, and barred men from employment based on their religion. The group that caused this uproar?: Irish and German Catholics - then known as the most villainous religious group in America, and widely believed to be loyal only to the Pope. It would take another hundred years before Catholics threw off these xenophobic accusations and joined the American mainstream. The idea that the United States is a stronghold of religious freedom is central to our identity as a nation - and utterly at odds with the historical record. In American Heretics, historian Peter Gottschalk traces the arc of American religious discrimination and shows that, far from the dominant protestant religions being kept in check by the separation between church and state, religious groups from Quakers to Judaism have been subjected to similar patterns of persecution. Today, many of these same religious groups that were once regarded as anti-thetical to American values are embraced as evidence of our strong religious heritage - giving hope to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious groups now under fire.

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• Verlag: SMP
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137278293
• ISBN 13: 9781137278296
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260