Religion and the American Revolution
Katherine Carté
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carté argues, British imperial protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religious communities struggled to reorganize within and across new national borders. Religious leaders recalibrated their relationships to government. If these shifts were more pronounced in the United States than in Britain, the loss of a shared system nonetheless mattered to both nations.
Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic,
Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.
Kundenbewertungen
Colonial America, Christian Nationalism, History of Evangelicalism, Revolutionary War, Sermons, Atlantic History, Fast Days, John Wesley, History of Protestantism, Eighteenth-century British Empire, American Revolution, Presbyterians, Anglicanism, George Whitefield, Methodist History, Religious Nationalism, Anglo-American Religion, Religion and the American Revolution, Eighteenth-century Methodism, Evangelicalism, Church of England, Great Awakening, Christian Missions