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- catalog abstract "Religion in a Revolutionary Age explores the rich variety and enormous complexity of religious experience in early America. Eleven essays address two broad themes: the role of religion in the Revolutionary upheaval itself and the influence of religion on the shaping of America's governing institutions. This broad focus both expands our understanding of the eighteenth century and carries implications for contemporary society. The two opening essays present contrasting assessments of religious experience in the British North American colonies. Jon Butler maintains that coercive authority was the foundation of all religious expression in the colonies, pointing to the importance of church-state relations and the institutional strength, sophistication, and authority of religious denominations. Patricia U. Bonomi contends that most of the colonists were Dissenters and thus at odds with traditional English values, both religiously and politically. The following four essays study the religious experiences of women, blacks, workers, and evangelicals in Revolutionary America. Elaine Forman Crane explores the religious motivations and actions of women and their consequent impact on the political process. Sylvia R. Frey discusses the formative periods of African-American Christianity in the South. Ronald Schultz evaluates the role of religion among Philadelphia's working class in the years after the Revolution. And Robert M. Calhoon studies evangelicalism in the South, particularly its impact on Revolutionary politics, its attempt to reconcile republicanism and Christianity, its congregational discipline, and its sermons. Several contributors then examine the relationship between religion and the political culture of the new nation. Stephen A. Marini analyzes the influence of religion on politics by focusing on the delegates to the state conventions called to ratify the new federal Constitution. Approaching the issue of religion and politics in the Revolutionary era from a different perspective, Edwin S. Gaustad outlines the provisions regulating religion in the state constitutions, the federal Constitution, and the Northwest Ordinance. M.L. Bradbury discusses the creation of structures of governance by three denominations - Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Baptists - in the decades of the Revolutionary era and after. Paul K. Conkin's essay explores implications of the fact that the American Revolution was not paralleled by a religious revolution. In the final essay, Ruth H. Bloch reexamines the debate over Revolutionary ideology that currently rages in American Revolutionary historiography. She looks at the relative influence of community-centered civic humanism and individualistic classical liberalism and their impact on the cultural life of Revolutionary America - particularly the areas of religious and family issues.".
- catalog contributor b4802451.
- catalog contributor b4802452.
- catalog contributor b4802453.
- catalog coverage "United States Church history 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Church history To 1775.".
- catalog coverage "United States Religion To 1800.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Coercion, miracle, reason : rethinking the American religious experience in the revolutionary age / Jon Butler -- Religious dissent and the case for American exceptionalism / Patricia U. Bonomi -- Religion and rebellion : women of faith in the American war for independence / Elaine Forman Crane -- "The year for jubilee is come" : Black Christianity in the plantation South in post-revolutionary America / Sylvia R. Frey -- God and workingmen : popular religion and the formation of Philadelphia's working class, 1790-1830 / Ronald Schultz -- The evangelical persuasion / Robert M. Calhoon -- Religion, politics, and ratification / Stephen A. Marini -- Religious tests, constitutions, and "Christian nation" / Edwin S. Gaustad -- Structures of nationalism / M.L. Bradbury -- Priestley and Jefferson : Unitarianism as a religion for a new revolutionary age / Paul A. Conkin -- Religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology / Ruth M. Bloch.".
- catalog description "In the final essay, Ruth H. Bloch reexamines the debate over Revolutionary ideology that currently rages in American Revolutionary historiography. She looks at the relative influence of community-centered civic humanism and individualistic classical liberalism and their impact on the cultural life of Revolutionary America - particularly the areas of religious and family issues.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Religion in a Revolutionary Age explores the rich variety and enormous complexity of religious experience in early America. Eleven essays address two broad themes: the role of religion in the Revolutionary upheaval itself and the influence of religion on the shaping of America's governing institutions. This broad focus both expands our understanding of the eighteenth century and carries implications for contemporary society. The two opening essays present contrasting assessments of religious experience in the British North American colonies. Jon Butler maintains that coercive authority was the foundation of all religious expression in the colonies, pointing to the importance of church-state relations and the institutional strength, sophistication, and authority of religious denominations. Patricia U. Bonomi contends that most of the colonists were Dissenters and thus at odds with traditional English values, both religiously and politically.".
- catalog description "Several contributors then examine the relationship between religion and the political culture of the new nation. Stephen A. Marini analyzes the influence of religion on politics by focusing on the delegates to the state conventions called to ratify the new federal Constitution. Approaching the issue of religion and politics in the Revolutionary era from a different perspective, Edwin S. Gaustad outlines the provisions regulating religion in the state constitutions, the federal Constitution, and the Northwest Ordinance. M.L. Bradbury discusses the creation of structures of governance by three denominations - Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Baptists - in the decades of the Revolutionary era and after. Paul K. Conkin's essay explores implications of the fact that the American Revolution was not paralleled by a religious revolution.".
- catalog description "The following four essays study the religious experiences of women, blacks, workers, and evangelicals in Revolutionary America. Elaine Forman Crane explores the religious motivations and actions of women and their consequent impact on the political process. Sylvia R. Frey discusses the formative periods of African-American Christianity in the South. Ronald Schultz evaluates the role of religion among Philadelphia's working class in the years after the Revolution. And Robert M. Calhoon studies evangelicalism in the South, particularly its impact on Revolutionary politics, its attempt to reconcile republicanism and Christianity, its congregational discipline, and its sermons.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 350 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813914485".
- catalog isPartOf "Perspectives on the American Revolution".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog spatial "United States Church history 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Church history To 1775.".
- catalog spatial "United States Religion To 1800.".
- catalog subject "277.3/07 20".
- catalog subject "BR520 .R45 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Coercion, miracle, reason : rethinking the American religious experience in the revolutionary age / Jon Butler -- Religious dissent and the case for American exceptionalism / Patricia U. Bonomi -- Religion and rebellion : women of faith in the American war for independence / Elaine Forman Crane -- "The year for jubilee is come" : Black Christianity in the plantation South in post-revolutionary America / Sylvia R. Frey -- God and workingmen : popular religion and the formation of Philadelphia's working class, 1790-1830 / Ronald Schultz -- The evangelical persuasion / Robert M. Calhoon -- Religion, politics, and ratification / Stephen A. Marini -- Religious tests, constitutions, and "Christian nation" / Edwin S. Gaustad -- Structures of nationalism / M.L. Bradbury -- Priestley and Jefferson : Unitarianism as a religion for a new revolutionary age / Paul A. Conkin -- Religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology / Ruth M. Bloch.".
- catalog title "Religion in a revolutionary age / edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "text".