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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Religious Regulation | |
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English Heritage | |
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The Crown and the Church | |
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The Age of Faith | |
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The Act of Uniformity, Religious Liberty, and Dissent | |
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Transplanting the Church of England in the Chesapeake | |
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"Nursing Fathers" of the Church | |
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A Gentleman's Religion | |
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Religious Outsiders | |
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Puritan Fathers and the "Christian Common-wealth" | |
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"The religious design of [the Puritan] Fathers" | |
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"Shields unto the Churches of New-England" | |
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"A well-bounded Toleration" | |
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A "Holy Experiment" in Religious Pluralism | |
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The "Holy Experiment" | |
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"A great mixt multitude" | |
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Religion, Politics, and the Failure of the "Holy Experiment" | |
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Religious Competition | |
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"Trafficking for the Lord" and the Expansion of Religious Choice | |
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Regulated Parishes | |
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"A Sett of Rambling Fellows" | |
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"As tho' they had their Religion to chuse" | |
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Deists Enter the Religious Marketplace | |
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The New Learning | |
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Science and Religion | |
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Founders and "True" Religion | |
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Whigs and Dissenters Fight Religious Regulation | |
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Whig and Dissenting Traditions | |
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Warning against "Spiritual Directors" | |
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Dissent against the Standing Order | |
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Religious Freedom | |
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The American Revolution of Religion | |
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Religion and Independence | |
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Opposing Massachusetts's "oppressive establishment of religion" | |
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Triumph of Religious Freedom in Virginia | |
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Constitutional Recognition of a Free Religious Market | |
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Religious Factions and the Threat to Union | |
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The "Godless Constitution" | |
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Ratification Contingent upon Religious Freedom | |
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Religion and Politics in the Presidential Campaign of 1800 | |
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"... govern ... in the name of the Lo: Jesus Christ" | |
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"Jefferson-and no God" | |
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"One God, three Gods, no God, or twenty Gods" | |
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Epilogue | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |