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From Jamestown to Jefferson
. Ed(S): Rasor, Paul; Bond, Richard E.
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Hardback. The origins of this volume lie in a semester-long symposium held during the fall of 2007 at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia, entitled "From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Authority in Colonial Virginia." The symposium was sponsored by the college's Center for the Study of Religious Freedom. Editor(s): Rasor, Paul; Bond, Richard E. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom--and on the emergence of the American understanding of religious freedom--by examining its deep roots in colonial Virginia's remarkable religious diversity. Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed. The presence of groups as disparate as Quakers, African and African American slaves, and Presbyterians, alongside the established Anglicans, generated a dynamic tension between religious diversity and attempts at hegemonic authority that was apparent from ... Read more
From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom--and on the emergence of the American understanding of religious freedom--by examining its deep roots in colonial Virginia's remarkable religious diversity. Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed. The presence of groups as disparate as Quakers, African and African American slaves, and Presbyterians, alongside the established Anglicans, generated a dynamic tension between religious diversity and attempts at hegemonic authority that was apparent from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813931081
SKU
V9780813931081
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About . Ed(S): Rasor, Paul; Bond, Richard E.
Paul Rasor is Director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Faith without Certainty: Liberal Theology in the Twenty-First Century. ||Richard E. Bond is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College and the coeditor of Perspectives on Life after the History Ph.D.
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