Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) - Hardcover

Carté, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469662647 ISBN 13: 9781469662640

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2021

Synopsis

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 Carté 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.

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About the Author

Katherine Carté (who previously published as Katherine Carté Engel) is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University, with affiliations in the Religious Studies department.

Edition details

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469662647
• ISBN 13: 9781469662640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416