A Lively Experiment
A Multireligious Historical Overview of Rhode Island
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| The first European to settle in Rhode Island was Roger Williams, who, in 1636, was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for preaching freedom of conscience and the strict separation of church and state. Williams' belief in church-state separation was based on his concern that involvement with "the wilderness of the state" would contaminate "the garden of the church." |
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