Revolution as Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688-1832

Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age

About the author

Peter C. Messer is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America and coeditor, with William Harrison Taylor, of Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora.

William Harrison Taylor is associate professor of history at Alabama State University. He is author of Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758-1801 and coeditor, with Peter C. Messer, of Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora.

Summary

Highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution. These essays explore the ways that the Protestant tradition, rooted in a perpetual process of recalibration and reformulation, provided the lens through which Protestants understood social and political change in the Age of Revolutions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter C. Messer (Editor), William Harrison Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780817320751
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2075-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries