By John Corrigan,Lynn S. Neal

ISBN-10: 0807833894

ISBN-13: 9780807833896

ISBN-10: 0807871184

ISBN-13: 9780807871188

American narratives usually have fun the nation's wealthy history of non secular freedom. there's, even though, a much less advised and infrequently overlooked a part of the tale: the ways in which intolerance and cultures of hate have manifested themselves inside American spiritual historical past and culture.

In the 1st ever documentary survey of non secular intolerance from the colonial period to the current, quantity editors John Corrigan and Lynn S. Neal outline spiritual intolerance and discover its heritage and manifestations, together with hate speech, discrimination, incarceration, expulsion, and violence. geared up thematically, the amount combines the editors' dialogue with greater than a hundred and fifty remarkable fundamental texts and images that rfile intolerance towards various spiritual traditions. relocating from anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan propaganda to mob assaults on Mormons, the lynching of Leo Frank, the abduction of "cult" individuals, and lots of different episodes, the quantity concludes with a bankruptcy addressing the altering face of non secular intolerance within the twenty-first century, with examples of ways the matter maintains to this day.

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