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Religious Toleration: Native Americans
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It is the story of the first flowering of religious toleration in English-speaking America. This toleration characterized the Pilgrims at Plymouth in their relationships with the "strangers" among them and with the Native Americans who surrounded them. The book focuses on a single leader in the toleration movement, William Vassall, who sought to formalize the policy and to extend its reach to the much larger Massachusetts Bay Colony, of which Vassall was one of the principals, established in Boston a decade later than Plymouth. But the behavior of Massachusetts Bay Colony toward outsiders of all kinds came to contrast sharply with the toleration in Plymouth, as a repressive and intolerant theocracy hijacked the Bay Colony's political and religious life.
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Religious toleration and freedom for Jews were not defined in Jewish terms but rather American. Jewish Political freedom and inclusion was even longer and more difficult in coming. Political equality was not to be universally realized until well into the second half of the 19th century - long after the American revolution when the 14th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution. It was freedom of conscience and differing religious views between Catholic and Protestant, Protestant and Protestant, Atheist, Agnostic and Freethinkers that created the tensions that eventually resulted in toleration of Jewish religious expression.
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Panelists on the NOW roundtable agree that religious toleration is an important American tradition. Students will examine the legal sources of that tradition by analyzing the "Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom" and the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
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A meandering tirade against religious toleration by Nathaniel Ward, one of the early Massachusetts Puritan ministers. Drawn from his "Simple Cobbler of Aggawamm in America," it offers a glimpse into the unsettling (and unsettled) minds of those early American Talibanists.
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