Description:
Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public life. This history recasts the origins of cultural politics in the United States by exploring how everyday Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty.
Review Quotes: "Fresh and insightful. . . . [An Age of Infidels] should remain required reading on church-state relations, and religion in the early republic, for quite some time."-- "Journal of Church and State"