… American church–state arrangement to explain the powerful energy of the American religious
… A belief in “the vigor and vitality of the American story of religious freedom,” in the words of …

readers must approach with some caution because of a pervasive conceptual confusion
about the requisites of religious freedom. Sehat opens with a description of Charles Reynolds’ …

Sehat invokes a credential that he says allows him to discern patterns that eluded his
predecessors:“I used to be an evangelical”(p. vii). His ability to see both sides, he claims, reveals a …

… religious freedom, although defined as embodying neutrality, tolerance, equality, and
freedom … the parallel uses of the myths of "la~'cit› and "religious freedom" to reinforce popular …

… religious liberty is mostly correct. Yet, as we shall see, his postmodern reduction of “the idea”
of religious freedom to myth … employs reduces the idea of religious liberty to mere ideology. …

… sections in developing religious freedom.”4 Even writers who have refused to ignore the
Puritan transgressions have still anointed early America as a crucible of religious freedom. The …

… religious institutions in the lived religion of many Americans from the bottom up. The Myth of
American Religious Freedom … the typical narratives of American religion and religious liberty. …

… , Christian Scientists, Baptists, Methodists, and more. Making the claim that American religious
freedom is a myth is either dependent on too narrow a definition of religious freedom or is …

… effects, especially in our own time, of the myth of religious freedom on American jurisprudence.
By continually invoking this myth and thereby refusing to acknowledge the republic’s ‘…

… The" myth" that America was born religiously free, though peddled by liberals, he … from
religious coercion. Green more readily accepts the proposition that the germ of religious freedom …