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    Background: Instructional Guides in Divining America: Religion in American History, on TeacherServe® from the National Humanities Center
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To illuminate and contextualize some of the issues covered in this section of "Living the Revolution," you might want to visit the instructional guides on TeacherServe®, the National Humanities Center's curriculum enrichment service.  We recommend the following from the guide Divining America: Religion in American History.
  
	
   
   
   
    
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How was religious freedom defined in the new republic? |  
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How could church-state separation co-exist with the conviction that religion is critical to a nation's strength?
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