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Our dear-bought liberty : Catholics and religious toleration in early America
- Title
- Our dear-bought liberty : Catholics and religious toleration in early America / Michael D. Breidenbach.
- Author
- Breidenbach, Michael D., 1986-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 355 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loyalty, colonial American Catholics drew on the medieval doctrine of conciliarism to declare independence from the pope. Conciliarism inspired their push for toleration, shaping the nation at large"--
- Alternative Title
- Our dear bought liberty
- Subject
- Carroll, John, 1735-1815
- Catholic Church > United States > History > 18th century
- Catholic Church
- 1700-1799
- Secularism > United States > History > 18th century
- Conciliar theory
- Religious tolerance > Catholic Church > History > 18th century
- Religious tolerance > United States > History > 18th century
- Religious tolerance
- Secularism
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Dual allegiances -- Part I. Subjects: Papist royalists -- Damnable doctrines -- The Calvert Code -- Part II. Revolutionaries: Locke's Intolerables -- No Papists -- Sovereign jealousies -- Part III. Citizens: Constitutional liberties -- Republican Catholics -- Conclusion: An American creed.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7489
- ISBN
- 9780674247239
- 067424723X
- LCCN
- 2020044755
- OCLC
- 1198018216
- Author
- Breidenbach, Michael D., 1986- author.
- Title
- Our dear-bought liberty : Catholics and religious toleration in early America / Michael D. Breidenbach.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Note
- Our dear bought liberty
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7489