Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Religious regulation -- ch. 1. English heritage -- ch. 2. Transplanting the Church of England in the Chesapeake -- ch. 3. Puritan fathers and the "Christian common-wealth" -- ch. 4. A "holy experiment" in religious pluralism -- pt. 2. Religious competition -- ch. 5. "Trafficking for the Lord" and the expansion of religious choice -- ch. 6. Deists enter the religious marketplace -- ch. 7. Whigs and dissenters fight religious regulation -- pt. 3. Religious freedom -- ch. 8. The American revolution of religion -- ch. 9. Constitutional recognition of a free religious market -- ch. 10. Religion and politics in the presidential campaign of 1800 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.