Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion

by Jack Rakove and Jack N. Rakove

Book Overview

Today, Americans believe that the early colonists came to the New World in search of religious liberty. What we often forget is that they wanted religious liberty for themselves, not for those who held other views that they rejected and detested. Yet, by the mid-18th century, the colonists agreed that everyone possessed a sovereign right of conscience. How did this change develop? In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195305817
• ISBN13: 9780195305814
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"