Roger Williams

Zusatztext In 1635, Williams founded Rhode Island as a haven of toleration and freethinking. Gaustad's timely little book reminds us that those are the enduring foundations of American civilization. Informationen zum Autor Edwin S. Gaustad is Professor of History and Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of California at Riverside. An authority on Roger Williams and on the subject of religious freedom, he is the author of Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America and Church and State in America, and is co-author of the award-winning The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America. Klappentext A leading expert on the life of Roger Williams offers this authoritative biography of the founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, and a colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights. Illustrations. Zusammenfassung A biography, exploring the life of Roger Williams: first champion for the separation of church and state, advocate for a Native American population abused by British colonists, cofounder of the Baptist Church, and founder of the state of Rhode Island.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Edwin S. Gaustad, Edwin Scott Gaustad
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.10.2005
• EAN: 9780195183696
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518369-6
• Pages: 160
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Thèmes: Print on demand; Lives and Legacies
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), RELIGION / Christianity / Baptist, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast, Baptist Churches