Part I: Roger Williams and the Seventeenth-Century's Lively Experiments -- How Special was Rhode Island? The Global Context of the 1663 Charter / Evan Haefeli -- 'Livelie Experiment' and 'Holy Experiment' : Two Trajectories of Religious Liberty / Andrew R. Murphy -- Toleration and Tolerance in Early Modern England / Scott Sowerby -- "When the Word of The Lord Runs Freely" : Roger Williams and Evangelical Toleration / Teresa Bejan -- Part II: Toleration, Revival, and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Muslims, Toleration, and Civil Rights, from Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson / Denise Spellberg -- "An encroachment on our religious rights" : Methodist Missions, Slavery, and Religious Toleration in the British Atlantic World / Christopher C. Jones -- "Between God and our own Souls" : The Discussion over Toleration in Eighteenth-Century America / Keith Pacholl -- Part III: Divisions Within : Protestants and Catholics in the New Nation -- "Enlightened, Tolerant, and Liberal" : Mathew Carey, Catholicism and Religious Freedom in the New Republic / Nicholas Pellegrino -- Making an American Church : Communal Toleration and Republican Governance in Early National Charleston and New York / Susanna Linsley -- The Nineteenth-Century "School Question" : An Episode in Religious Intolerance or an Expansion of Religious Freedom? / Steven K. Green -- Part IV: Pluralism and Its Discontents : Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Contests Over Religious Difference -- "There is no such thing as a reverend of no church" : Incarcerated Children, Nonsectarian Religion, and Freedom of Worship in Gilded Age New York City / Jacob Betz -- The Cost of Inclusion : Interfaith Unity and Intrafaith Division in the Formation of Protestant-Catholic-Jewish America / David Mislin -- Dog Tags : Religious Toleration and the Politics of American Military Identification / Ronit Y. Stahl -- Part V: Ecumenism's Paradoxes : Religious Dissent and the Redefinition of the Modern Religious Mainstream -- "This Is a Mighty Warfare that We Are Engaged In" : Pentecostals in Early Twentieth-Century New England / Evelyn Savidge Sterne -- How the Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Changed American Law and Religion / Shawn Francis Peters -- The First Mormon Moment : The Latter-Day Saints in American Culture 1940-1965 / Christine Hutchison-Jones -- The National Council of Churches versus Right-Wing Radio : How the Mainline Muted the New Christian Right / Paul Matzko -- Part VI: Civil or Religious? : The New Boundaries of Religious Tolerance -- Pseudo Religion and Real Religion : The Modern Anticult Movement and Religious Freedom in America / James B. Bennett -- America Beyond Civil Religion : The Anabaptist Experience / Kip A. Wedel.