Origins of American Religious Nationalism

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Sam Haselby was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2007-10, a faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo, and the Senior Executive Producer for Al Jazeera America Digital. He is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Summary

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.

Additional text

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Product details

• Authors: Sam Haselby, Sam (Visiting Assistant Professor of Amer Haselby, Sam (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies Haselby, Haselby Sam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9780199329571
• ISBN: 978-0-19-932957-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Religion in America
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, Nationalism, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / United States / General, History of Religion, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches