Mark Valeri

Publications

Book cover features a historical engraving depicting a gathering of people in a religious setting, with individuals reading, preaching, and engaging in discussion.

The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty

Mark Valeri (Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, 2017-18)

Using various sources—travel narratives, dictionaries, encyclopedias of the world's religions, missionary tracts, and sermons—this book traces a transformation in how English and colonial American Protestants described other religions during a crucial period of English colonization in North America.