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Separating Church and State

ISBN-13: 9780252066641
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Timothy L. Hall
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Local release date: 16/03/1997
Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]

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Google Preview: Roger Williams, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, is famous as an apostle of religious tolerance and a foe of religious establishments. In Separating Church and State, Timothy Hall combines impressive historical and legal scholarship to explore Williams's theory of religious liberty and relate it to current debate. Williams's fierce religious dogmaticism, Hall argues, is precisely what led to his religious tolerance, making him one of the most articulate champions of the argument for the necessary separation of church and state. ''Both timely and provocative. . . . Offers Williams's largely overlooked but deeply important perspective on the peaceful coexistence of committed believers of diverse faiths. The book also brings into question crucial tenets of the United States Supreme Court's First Amendment religion clause jurisprudence at a time when many are raising questions about it.'' -- Marci A. Hamilton, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City ''Hall has the entire Williams corpus under his command, and he plays the relevant texts like a master organist. He also has the legal corpus equally at his fingertips. One of the great strengths of his book is that it bridges the too often separate fields of history and jurisprudence.'' -- Edwin Gaustad, author of Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America; Separation and banishment -- The premises of religious establishment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Challenging the logic of the puritan establishme -- Order and ''civility'' -- Roger Williams and the theoretical foundations of the First Amendment --The significance of Roger Williams.; ''With interpretive subtlety and great narrative flair, Hall succeeds admirably. His book deserves a wide audience and intensive course assignment... Just as Williams emerges from Hall's pages as a complex hero, his Puritan persecutors are fully human opponents rather than cardboard villains. Explaining both Williams and the Massachusetts authorities in their own terms, Hall makes them as intelligible to us as they were to each other -- no small achievement.'' - Jame Kamensky, The Journal of American History; Google Preview content

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