Pulpit and Nation : Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America Hardback
by Spencer W. McBride
Part of the Jeffersonian America series
Hardback
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In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, showing the actual role of religion in the founding era.
Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas Jefferson's conversion to Christianity in 1817, this book demonstrates the ways in which the clergy's political activism-and early Americans' general use of religious language and symbols in their political discourse-expanded and evolved to become an integral piece in the invention of an American national identity.
Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system-the Revolution, the ratification debates of 1787-88, and the formation of political parties in the 1790s-McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones in the creation of the early American republic.
Ultimately, Pulpit and Nation reveals that while religious expression was common in the political culture of the Revolutionary era, it was as much the calculated design of ambitious men seeking power as it was the natural outgrowth of a devoutly religious people.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:271 pages
- Publisher:University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2017
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- ISBN:9780813939568
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:271 pages
- Publisher:University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813939568
