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 reveals 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...
In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating th...
Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system - the Revolution, the ratification debates, the formation of political parties - McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones in the creation of the early American republic.
Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system - the Revolution, the ratification debat...
