商品簡介
Historian McBride takes a new look at religion and politics in Revolutionary America, focusing on pivotal national events and developments between 1775 and 1800, in which religious language and symbolism helped shape public discourse. Citing the relationship of religion to politics in America's founding era as complex and at times riddled with ambiguity, he examines the impact of religious language and symbols on the political and martial mobilization of Americans as well as their place in the creation of an American national identity. He also explains the entanglement of clerical alliances during the fight with Great Britain and the plurality of religious interest involved in factional-turned-partisan debates which helped bring the Revolution to its contentious, albeit nonviolence end. Six chapters with conclusion are: Congress and the courtship of providence; revolutionizing chaplains; navigating revolution; clergymen and the Constitution; preaching party; the myth of the Christian president; conclusion: more than a question of church and state. There are notes, and a bibliography. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Spencer W. McBride is a historian and documentary editor at the Joseph Smith Papers.
