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Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America

by Spencer W. McBride

In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating 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 r

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Publication date

May 29, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

272

ISBN

9780813941929