{"product_id":"an-age-of-infidels-9780812244939","title":"An Age of Infidels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity''s staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing so, he casts new light on the ways Americans reconciled their varied religious beliefs with political change at a formative moment in the nation''s cultural life.\u003cbr\u003eAfter the American Revolution, citizens of the new nation felt no guarantee that they would avoid the mire of religious and political conflict that had gripped much of Europe for three centuries. Debates thus erupted in the new United States about how or even if long-standing religious beliefs, institutions, and traditions could be accommodated within a new republican political order that encouraged suspicion of inherited traditions. Public life in the period included contentious arguments over the best way to en\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eAn Age of Infidels\u003c\/i\u003e] offers anyone curious about the vexed relationship between American religion and politics a compelling explanation of how that relationship became established.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Schlereth] has lucidly described the strategies and practices through which early Americans sought to bring religious convictions, Christians and deist, to bear on politics and culture.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Fresh and insightful. . . . [\u003ci\u003eAn Age of Infidels\u003c\/i\u003e] should remain required reading on church-state relations, and religion in the early republic, for quite some time.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Church and State\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this important study of deism and free enquiry in the early United States, Eric Schlereth shows how religious \"infidelity,\" whose specter had once terrified Americans, became a living, breathing-and not altogether terrifying-reality. Both broad in conception and judicious in its use of evidence, Schlereth's rigorous account of infidelity and religious controversy offers an exciting and original interpretation of early American cultural politics.\" * Chris Beneke, Bentley University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Remaking Religion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. America's Deist Future\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Citizen Deists\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Partisan Religious Truths\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. America's Deist Past\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Free Enquiry\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Political Religion, Political Irreligion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Origins of American Cultural Politics\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405721510231,"sku":"9780812244939","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812244939.jpg?v=1730493389","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-age-of-infidels-9780812244939","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}