New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty write by Evan Haefeli. This book was released on 2013-04-08. New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion." For early American historians this statement, unique in the world at its time, lies at the root of American pluralism. New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a new reading of the way tolerance operated in colonial America. Using sources in several languages and looking at laws and ideas as well as their enforcement and resistance, Evan Haefeli shows that, although tolerance as a general principle was respected in the colony, there was a pronounced struggle against it in practice. Crucial to the fate of New Netherland were the changing religious and political dynamics within the English empire. In the end, Haefeli argues, the most crucial factor in laying the groundwork for religious tolerance in colonial America was less what the Dutch did than their loss of the region to the English at a moment when the English were unusually open to religious tolerance. This legacy, often overlooked, turns out to be critical to the history of American religious diversity. By setting Dutch America within its broader imperial context, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of a conflict integral to the histories of the Dutch republic, early America, and religious tolerance.
Accidental Pluralism
Accidental Pluralism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accidental Pluralism write by Evan Haefeli. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Accidental Pluralism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because England’s religious unity collapsed just as America was being colonized. By tying the emergence of American religious toleration to global events, Haefeli creates a true transnationalist history that links developing American realities to political and social conflicts and resolutions in Europe, showing how the relationships among states, churches, and publics were contested from the beginning of the colonial era and produced a society that no one had anticipated. Accidental Pluralism is an ambitious and comprehensive new account of the origins of American religious life that compels us to refine our narratives about what came to be seen as American values and their distinct relationship to religion and politics.
Opening Statements
Opening Statements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opening Statements write by Albert M. Rosenblatt. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Opening Statements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the influence of Dutch law and jurisprudence in colonial America.
Heaven’s Wrath
Heaven’s Wrath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heaven’s Wrath write by D. L. Noorlander. This book was released on 2019-09-15. Heaven’s Wrath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heaven's Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century. Noorlander questions the core assumptions about why the Dutch failed to establish a durable empire in America. He downplays the usual commercial explanations and places the focus instead on the tremendous expenses incurred in the Calvinist-backed war and the Reformed Church's meticulous, worried management of colonial affairs. By pinpointing the issues that hampered the size and import of the Dutch Atlantic world, Noorlander revises core notions about the organization and aims of the Dutch empire, the culture of the West India Company, and the very shape of Dutch society.
New Light on the Old Colony
New Light on the Old Colony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Light on the Old Colony write by Jeremy Bangs. This book was released on 2019-10-29. New Light on the Old Colony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bangs overturns stereotypes with exciting new analyses of colonial and Native life in Plymouth Colony, of religious toleration, and of historical memory.
