Religion and the American Revolution : an imperial history / Katherine Carté.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carté, Katherine, author.

Series:

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Great Britain--History.

Church and state.

Religion and politics--United States--History.

Religion and politics.

Protestantism--Political aspects--United States.

Protestantism.

Protestantism--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Church and state--United States--History.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Religious aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages)

Place of Publication:

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"For most of the eighteenth century, British Protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carte argues, British imperial Protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religious communities struggled to reorganize within and across new national borders. Religious leaders recalibrated their relationships to government. If these shifts were more pronounced in the United States than in Britain, the loss of a shared system nonetheless mattered to both nations. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations and Short Titles

Note on Capitalization

Introduction

1. Britain's Imperial Protestantism

2. Stamps, Bishops, and Missions: Continuity in the 1760s

3. Bending Apart, 1773-1774

4. National Wars: Public Religion in the First Years of the Revolution

5. The War's Consequences for Protestant Communities

6. Antipopery and the End of the Protestant State

7. The New Protestant Order

8. Transforming Religious Establishments

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890859310 (electronic book)

9781469662664

1469662663

OCLC:

1247679205