Free Exercise

Free Exercise is an innovative contribution to both United States constitutional history and the history of religious toleration in the United States. It traces the routes by which Americans arrived at the First Amendment's religious clauses, the cultural currents that shaped their meaning, and the consequences that flowed from them.

Chris Beneke is professor of History and Associate Dean for the First Year Experience and the Bentley Core at Bentley University. He has written extensively about the history of religious toleration, as well as essays on politics, religion, and sports for The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.

- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE. Changes
- TWO. Duties
- THREE. Cruelties
- FOUR. Civilities
- FIVE. Inequalities
- SIX. Infidels
- EPILOGUE