From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia

List of Contributors

Edward L. Bond, Ph.D., is Professor of History at Alabama A&M University and editor-in-chief of Anglican and Episcopal History. He is editor of Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Preaching, Religion, and Community (2005) and author of Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony : Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2000), as well as many scholarly articles on the history of the church in Virginia. Richard E. Bond, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College. He has coedited Perspectives on Life after the History Ph.D. (2006) and authored “Shaping a Conspiracy: Black Testimony in the 1741 New York Plot,” in Early American Studies (2007). Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Ph.D., is Professor of Modern Christian History at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University/ Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776–1787 (1977), The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion (2002), and more than a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on Thomas Jefferson and church-state issues in America. He is currently completing a study of the history of religious freedom and the implementation of Jefferson ’s Statute in Virginia before 1940. Daniel L. Dreisbach, J.D., D.Phil., is Professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University, School of Public Affairs. He is author of Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State (2002) and has edited or coedited several volumes, including The Sacred Rights of Conscience: contributors Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (2009), The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (2009), and The Founders on God and Government (2004). Philip D. Morgan, Ph.D., is Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998) and coeditor of the volumes Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (2006), Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800 (2009), and Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009). Monica Najar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Lehigh University. She is author of Evangelizing the South: A Social History of Church and State in Early America (2008). Her article “‘Meddling with Emancipation’: Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South” was reprinted in The Best American History Essays 2007. Paul Rasor, J.D., Ph.D., is Director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. He has published widely in both law and theology; his recent publications include Faith without Certainty: Liberal Theology in the Twenty-first Century (2005) and “Theological and Political Liberalisms,” in the Journal of Law and Religion (2009). Brent Tarter is a founding editor of the Library of Virginia’s Dictionary of Virginia Biography and an editor of the seven-volume Revolutionary Virginia, the Road to Independence: A Documentary Record (1973–83). He has published several articles on Virginia history in a variety of scholarly journals and is a cofounder of the annual Virginia Forum. 194 contributors ...