Religious liberties: anti-catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture

Early and nineteenth-century U.S. literary and cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Through analysis of a wide range of texts, Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom and pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism. INDICE: Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Privacy, Pluralism, and Anti-Catholic Democracy; 1: Catholic Canadians and Protestant Pluralism in the Early Republic; 2: Pleas for Democracy: Federalism, Expansionism, and Nativism; 3: Papal Persuasions: Religious Conversion and Deliberative Democracy; 4: This is My Body Politic: Catholic Democracy and the Limits of Representation; 5: Haitian Catholicism and the End of Pluralism; 6: Losing Faith: Ultramontane Liberalism and Democratic Failure; Afterword; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-538409-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés