By identifying a historic fight within Anglo-American Protestantism, and how it related to major contemporary political developments in the early American republic, Sam Haselby explains the origins of the distinct language and means of combining political and religious authority that characterizes American nationalism.
By identifying a historic fight within Anglo-American Protestantism, and how it related to major contemporary political developments in the early American republic, Sam Haselby explains the origins of the distinct language and means of combining political and religious authority that characterizes American nationalism.
Sam Haselby is a historian of religion and American political culture. He earned his PhD at Columbia University, was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has been a faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. His writings on U.S. politics and religion in historical perspective have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian. He is working on a book about the opium trade. Currently, he is a visiting faculty member at Columbia University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Chapter 1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism * Chapter 2 ''The Songs of a Nation'': The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire * Chapter 3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier * Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic * Chapter 5 ''The Love of Order and Righteous Laws'': Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement * Chapter 6 ''A Complete Chain of Communication'': Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building * Epilogue--A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism * Index
* Introduction * Chapter 1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism * Chapter 2 ''The Songs of a Nation'': The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire * Chapter 3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier * Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic * Chapter 5 ''The Love of Order and Righteous Laws'': Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement * Chapter 6 ''A Complete Chain of Communication'': Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building * Epilogue--A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism * Index
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