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Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
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About Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, And Ongoing
Product Description Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation’s “greatest invention.” Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses. American leaders drove religious freedom forward--figures like James Madison, George Washington, the World War II presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower) and even George W. Bush. But the biggest heroes were the regular Americans – people like Mary Dyer, Marie Barnett and W.D. Mohammed -- who risked their lives or reputations by demanding to practice their faiths freely. Just as the documentary Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time. Finally, Sacred Liberty provides a roadmap for how, in the face of modern threats to religious freedom, this great achievement can be preserved. Review “Without freedom of conscience the whole history of the nation--and world--might be very different. We are lucky that Waldman has written this compelling study of the most essential breakthrough of modernity: the right to believe, or not, as one wishes. A great book about a monumental issue.” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Soul of America) “This is an important and fascinating book full of riveting stories, provocative insights, inspiring heroes, and some serious warnings. The American model of religious freedom should be the envy of the world. But if we don’t understand how we made this great ‘invention,’ we could easily squander the achievement.” (Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and God: A Human History) “Americans take for granted that religious liberty is one of the country’s founding principles. Sacred Liberty provides the vivid, detailed, little-known stories of the people who first defended that principle and have continued to re-shape and revive it in dramatically changing circumstances. Surprising, instructive, very timely, and wise.” (James Fallows, author of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America) “Steven Waldman has given us an extraordinarily readable journey through a thorny landscape: America’s struggle to get religious liberty right. Agree or not with all of his conclusions, you cannot ignore the importance of his thesis that religious freedom must be a level ground for all sincerely held religious beliefs.” (Craig L. Parshall, conservative First Amendment attorney and bestselling author) “This is what we need to know about the history of religious freedom in America. It is often an uncomfortable story, frequently infuriating, sometimes inspiring, consistently challenging. Waldman draws the reader into this epic struggle with a vivid and engaging narrative.” (Ingrid Mattson, Former Head of the Islamic Society of North America) “At a moment of renewed animus against minority faiths, Steven Waldman provides both a stirring defense of religious freedom and a warning against the forces that continue to threaten it. His book is a tour de force, crafted with an historian’s eye and a journalist’s flair.” (Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania) “Well-researched and eye-opening. This compelling book is a must read for anyone whose life is impacted by the search and the fight for religious freedom. And that’s all of us whether we know it or not; whether we follow a religion or we don’t.” (Sylviane A. Diouf, author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas) “Waldman’s treatment of the religious intolerance that Catholics endured in the United States is especially interesting.
