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Chu explains the rise of religious toleration in America through an examination of the Puritan response to Quakerism in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. He casts the phenomenon in a new light, arguing that toleration for Quakerism emerged out of the very values and structures of Puritan life in Massachusetts Bay as early as the 1660s. Intolerance, Chu submits, became a threat to the separation of church and state, of local and central authority. The interaction of local forces and interests th
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- Author
- Chu, Jonathan M.
- Publisher
- Praeger; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313248092
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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