The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America

List of Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s Chris Beneke is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences at Bentley University. He is the author of Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Oxford, 2006) and is working on a history of educational integration in nineteenth-century America. John Corrigan is the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University. He is editor of the Chicago History of American Religion book series at the University of Chicago Press and co-editor of the journal Church History. His recent books include: Religious Intolerance in America: A Documentary History, ed. with Lynn Neal; Religion in American History, ed. with Amanda Porterfield; and, Religion in America (8th ed.), with Winthrop Hudson; and The Spatial Humanities (coedited ). Joyce D. Goodfriend, Professor of History at the University of Denver, is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, – (Princeton, 1992) and editor of Revisiting New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America (Leiden, 2005). Christopher Grasso is the editor of the William and Mary Quarterly and is a Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. His publications include ‘‘Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution,’’ Journal of American History 95, 1 (June 2008), 43–68, and ‘‘Skepticism and American Faith: Infidels and Converts in the Early Nineteenth Century,’’ Journal of the Early Republic 22, 3 (Fall 2002), 465–508. Christopher S. Grenda is Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. His publications include 386 Contributors ‘‘Religious Culture and Natural Rights: Understanding the ’Paradox’ of Early America,’’ Journal of Law and Religion 22, 2 (2007): 353–96; ‘‘Thinking Historically about Diversity: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Construction of Civic Culture in Early America,’’ Journal of Church and State 48, 3 (2006): 567–600; ‘‘Revealing Liberalism in Early America: Rethinking Religious Liberty and Liberal Values,’’ Journal of Church and State 45, 1 (2003): 131–63. Susan Juster is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan. She is the author most recently of Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), and is currently working on a cultural history of religious violence in British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ned Landsman is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of the forthcoming Crossroads of Empire: Middle Colonies in the Making of a British Atlantic, which will be published with the Johns Hopkins University Press. He is also working on a study of the significance of the British Union of 1707 for the North American Colonies. Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to / (Oxford, 2009); and Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America (Penn State, 2001). In addition, he has edited and provided an introduction to The Political Writings of William Penn (Liberty Fund, 2002); and co-edited Religion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies (Lexington, 2006); and Literature, Culture, Tolerance (Peter Lang, 2009). He is currently at work on a book exploring the life, political career, and political thought of William Penn; and on editing the Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (forthcoming, 2011). William Pencak, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University , is the author of Jews and Gentiles in Early America: – (University of Michigan Press, 2005) which was the runner-up for the National Book Award in American Jewish History for that year. Richard W. Pointer is Professor of History at Westmont College where he holds the Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences. He is the Contributors 387 author most recently of Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion (Indiana University Press, 2007). Jon Sensbach is Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author most recently of Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (Harvard, 2005) and is working on a study of religious exchanges in the early American South. Owen Stanwood is...