| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism. By Chris Beneke. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii, 305 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530555-5.)

In eighteenth-century America, the proliferation of religious sects threatened civil society. Ratification of the First Amendment (1791) signaled that Americans recognized that those sects had an equal claim to legitimacy and that no one religion should dominate. How did Americans between 1760 and 1820 move from religious toleration—the seventeenth-century norm that merely accepted the unacceptable—to religious pluralism and liberty—the idea of peaceful coexistence and mutual respect of multiple beliefs? Beyond Toleration analyzes the process by which Americans "managed to accommodate the religious differences that produced so much bloodshed in the past" and move toward a pluralistic society (p. 7).

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