Preface
Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Dates
Introduction
Chapter 1. Dutch Tolerance
Chapter 2. Connivance
Chapter 3. Toleration
Chapter 4. Non-Christians
Chapter 5. Babel
Chapter 6. Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 7. Public Church
Chapter 8. Borders
Chapter 9. Radicalism
Chapter 10. Conquest
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Evan Haefeli demonstrates how convoluted and uncertain were the beginnings of religious tolerance in America, by giving them an international context.
Evan Haefeli is Associate Professor of History at Texas AandM University.
"New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty
does nothing less than expand and transform our understanding of
religious diversity and toleration in colonial Dutch North America.
It will become required reading for anyone seriously interested in
the early history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, the genesis of
religious pluralism in America, or the history of religious
toleration in the Dutch world."—Reviews in History
"Through an examination of the too-often neglected Dutch colony of
New Netherland that places its subject firmly in the Atlantic
context, Evan Haefeli makes vital contributions both to colonial
American history and to American religious history writ
large."—Francis Bremer, author of John Winthrop: America's
Forgotten Founding Father
"Evan Haefeli has written an original and quite provocative study
of the alleged Dutch origins of religious toleration as a truly
American value. The book eschews oversimplified revaluation and
presents a nuanced picture of the colony's religious history. Of
particular value is the author's familiarity with the literature in
Dutch, quite rare even among American historians of New
Netherland."—Willem Frijhoff, VU University Amsterdam
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