From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia

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From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia. Edited by Paul Rasor and Richard E. Bond. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 203pp. $40.00.

The editors rightly suggest that this short volume might spark a "long overdue . . . study of early Virginia reUgion" (p. 8). As can be expected from a series of lectures, this work does not dramatically change the historiography, but the discussion that it invites is welcome. In any case, it makes a good afternoon refresher on Virginia's religious history.

"In the beginning- that is to say, in the spring of 1607," is a begmling way for Brent Tarter to open both the volume and his argument …