Sacred Liberty
America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

This is, in most part, the history of religious intolerance and tolerance in the United States of America. It's a defense of the Madisonian proposition that the best way to protect religious liberty is to avoid, as much as possible, interfering with it by either promoting or repressing particular re......more

The United States prides itself on its protections of religious freedom. We tell the story of how the Pilgrims came to these shores so they might have religious liberty. Truth be told, they were only interested in freedom for themselves. The same was true of most of those who made their way to the s......more

Summary: Rather than a given of American religious history, religious liberty has often been honored more in the breach, and fought for by religious minorities excluded from this liberty. One of the mythologies of American history was the commitment from the beginnings of the American experiment to r......more

Waldman gives a broad overview of some biases or persecution of various religious groups in American history. There’s the predictable ones — Mormons, JWs, African tribal religions, and Indian spirituality — and the more "modern" ones which we have seen from immigrants in recent years — Hinduism and......more

Excellent book about a topic we know too little about, the history of religious liberty, especially in the U.S. You'd be amazed at what it's taken to get us to this point. Even with religious freedom under attack on many fronts in the current political climate, this book points out the uniqueness of......more