Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730

Informationen zum Autor Jon Butler is Dean of the Graduate School and Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. Klappentext This new edition and update of the seminal study! "Power! Authority! and the Origins of American Denominational Order! " questions the assumption that colonial American churches were seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination. Zusammenfassung Questions the assumption that colonial American churches are seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination. This title shows that colonial American religious organization reflected a clear and conscious commitment to British patterns of life and faith.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Butler, Jon/ Harper Butler
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.12.2008
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
• EAN: 9780817355258
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5525-8
• Pages: 218
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture