The origins of American religious nationalism
by Haselby, Sam
fromReligion in America series
by Haselby, Sam
fromReligion in America series
In the half century following independence, a fight within Protestantism, a contest over the colonization of the frontier, reshaped American nationalism in ways that transformed American political culture. Fear of the dynamism and authority of popular, frontier religious movemen…
The powers of the earth : secularism and American nationalism -- "The songs of a nation" : the Connecticut wits and the new English empire -- To raise a holy people, wear no slouched hat : the Methodist settlement of the frontier -- Sovereignty and salvation on the frontier of t…
In the half century following independence, a fight within Protestantism, a contest over the colonization of the frontier, reshaped American nationalism in ways that transformed American political culture. Fear of the dynamism and authority of popular, frontier religious movemen…
"Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independ…