Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal

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By Tisa Joy Wenger *02

Published July 25, 2017

In Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Carolina Press), Tisa Joy Wenger *02, a Yale Divinity School professor of American religious history, argues that the definition of religious freedom is not a timeless American right, but instead is constantly changing.

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