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…
Mexican American religions: an introduction
Mexican American religions: an introduction
"Mexican American Religions is a concise introduction to the religious life of Mexican American people in the United States. This accessible volume uses historical narrative to explore the complex religious experiences and practices that have shaped Mexican American life in Nort…
Mexican American religions: an introduction
Mexican American Religions is a concise introduction to the religious life of Mexican American people in the United States. This accessible volume uses historical narrative to explore the complex religious experiences and practices that have shaped Mexican American life in North…
The term 'manifest destiny' has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realise the degree to which manifest destiny and American republ…
Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slavehol…