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Should prayer be allowed in public schools? Should biology be taught according to Darwin or to the book of Genesis? Why is polygamy against the law? These are just a few of the questions that touch our lives directly and emerge out of the separation of church and state. In this volume, one of the most distinguished scholars of American religious history traces the complicated relationship of church and state from the early colonial period, thr...

A leading expert on the life of Roger Williams offers this authoritative biography of the founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, and a colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights. Illustrations.

Written by a leading authority on colonial America, this compact biography captures in a remarkably small space one of the most protean lives in the nation's history--that of inventor, publisher, and statesman Benjamin Franklin. Illustrations.

Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard textFor decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history from the sixteenth century to the present. This fourth edition--published in a single volume for the first time--has been updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily cover the material in...

In the lauded Faith of the Founders, revered historian Edwin Gaustad provides a careful consideration of the developing relationship between religion and the state after the American Revolution. With concise focus on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams, Gaustad identifies seven varying-sometimes contrary-perspectives on religion that guided the nation's founders. Faith of the Founders masterful...

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Written by a leading authority on colonial America, this compact biography captures in a remarkably small space one of the most protean lives of American history.

A Dynamic Account of Religion's Central Role in American History

Williams advocated reform within his own faith community, but for his efforts was turned out of his own church. He eventually became a Separatist seeking a complete break from the Church of England. The tenants espoused by Williams are as valid for today as in the mid-seventeenth century. The classic text of religious freedom.

Gaustad provides a fine account of the events that were the context for Holmes's life and action, (and) abundant and well-chosen excerpts from debates and trials provide the reader with a powerful sense of the desires and hopes of the men who struggled to bring various brands of holiness to New England."--"New England Quarterly

Gaustad has again demonstrated his mastery of American religious history with this elegantly crafted and incisively argued study of Jefferson's religion. Of course, in telling so well the story of Jefferson's engagement with religious issues, he has also given us an important piece of American nation building.

Refurbished by historian of American religion Mark A. Noll, these rich sourcebooks contain original documents -- letters, sermons, court records, personal narratives, and more -- that chronicle the drama of American religious history.

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This anthology displays the tapestry of religious experience in America during the past three centuries. Compiled and edited by a foremost historian of American religion, these twenty-six spiritual autobiographies, ordered chronologically, uniquely capture the nation's soul in the words of the people who helped shape it.. "Featuring a full-page portrait of most of the writers included in the volume as well as insightful introductory comments b...

Gaustad skillfully tells the story of Roger Williams: founder of Rhode Island, a defender of religious liberty, and a man of deep religious and political convictions.