An Age of Infidels by Eric R Schlereth

An Age of Infidels by Eric R Schlereth

Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public life. This history recasts the origins of cultural politics in the United States by exploring how everyday Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty.

"[An Age of Infidels] offers anyone curious about the vexed relationship between American religion and politics a compelling explanation of how that relationship became established" (Journal of the Early Republic) "[Schlereth] has lucidly described the strategies and practices through which early Americans sought to bring religious convictions, Christians and deist, to bear on politics and culture." (American Historical Review) "Fresh and insightful. . . . [An Age of Infidels] should remain required reading on church-state relations, and religion in the early republic, for quite some time." (Journal of Church and State) "In this important study of deism and free enquiry in the early United States, Eric Schlereth shows how religious "infidelity," whose specter had once terrified Americans, became a living, breathing-and not altogether terrifying-reality. Both broad in conception and judicious in its use of evidence, Schlereth's rigorous account of infidelity and religious controversy offers an exciting and original interpretation of early American cultural politics." (Chris Beneke, Bentley University)

Eric R. Schlereth is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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ISBN 13	9780812244939
ISBN 10	0812244931
Title	An Age of Infidels
Author	Eric R Schlereth
Series	Early American Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published	2013-04-09
Number of pages	304
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