Anthony Gill is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles and holds an Honors BA degree from Marquette University.

'Gill arrives at … conclusions through a rich and rigorous comparative analysis of three historical cases: colonial and early postcolonial America, Latin America, and post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia … his comparative use of analytic narrative … is admirably focused, brisk, and readable, in part because it is organised around the systematic testing of eleven propositions and sub-propositions … Gill deserves credit for not overstating his case: he is careful to acknowledge that ideas also play a role in determining the level and type of government restrictions on religion, and he is careful also to emphasize that his book's scope … is limited to a detailed examination of political origins of religious freedom, thus allowing that religious freedom derives from non-political sources as well. … The Political Origins of Religious Liberty is an exciting beginning … launching a theory that promises to stimulate useful new research on a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of religious liberty and its absence.' The Review of Politics

• 1. Introduction: of liberty, laws, religion, and regulation; 2. The political origins of religious liberty; 3. Colonial British America; 4. Mexico and Latin America; 5. The Eastern Bloc and the Baltics (with Cheryl Zilinskas); 6. We gather together: the consequences of religious liberty.

Anthony Gill is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles and holds an Honors BA degree from Marquette University.

'Gill arrives at … conclusions through a rich and rigorous comparative analysis of three historical cases: colonial and early postcolonial America, Latin America, and post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia … his comparative use of analytic narrative … is admirably focused, brisk, and readable, in part because it is organised around the systematic testing of eleven propositions and sub-propositions … Gill deserves credit for not overstating his case: he is careful to acknowledge that ideas also play a role in determining the level and type of government restrictions on religion, and he is careful also to emphasize that his book's scope … is limited to a detailed examination of political origins of religious freedom, thus allowing that religious freedom derives from non-political sources as well. … The Political Origins of Religious Liberty is an exciting beginning … launching a theory that promises to stimulate useful new research on a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of religious liberty and its absence.' The Review of Politics

• 1. Introduction: of liberty, laws, religion, and regulation; 2. The political origins of religious liberty; 3. Colonial British America; 4. Mexico and Latin America; 5. The Eastern Bloc and the Baltics (with Cheryl Zilinskas); 6. We gather together: the consequences of religious liberty.

Anthony Gill is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles and holds an Honors BA degree from Marquette University.

'Gill arrives at … conclusions through a rich and rigorous comparative analysis of three historical cases: colonial and early postcolonial America, Latin America, and post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia … his comparative use of analytic narrative … is admirably focused, brisk, and readable, in part because it is organised around the systematic testing of eleven propositions and sub-propositions … Gill deserves credit for not overstating his case: he is careful to acknowledge that ideas also play a role in determining the level and type of government restrictions on religion, and he is careful also to emphasize that his book's scope … is limited to a detailed examination of political origins of religious freedom, thus allowing that religious freedom derives from non-political sources as well. … The Political Origins of Religious Liberty is an exciting beginning … launching a theory that promises to stimulate useful new research on a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of religious liberty and its absence.' The Review of Politics

• 1. Introduction: of liberty, laws, religion, and regulation; 2. The political origins of religious liberty; 3. Colonial British America; 4. Mexico and Latin America; 5. The Eastern Bloc and the Baltics (with Cheryl Zilinskas); 6. We gather together: the consequences of religious liberty.