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Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (Jeffersonian America)

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In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the true role of religion within 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 through which the clergy’s political activism―and early Americans’ general use of religious language and symbols of their political discourse―expanded and evolved to change into an integral piece within the invention of an American national identity. Offering a fresh examination of probably the most key junctures within the development of the American political system―the Revolution, the ratification debates of 1787–88, and the formation of political parties within the 1790s―McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones within the creation of the early American republic. In the long run, Pulpit and Nation reveals that at the same time as religious expression used to be common within the political culture of the Revolutionary era, it used to be as much the calculated design of ambitious men in search of power as it used to be the natural outgrowth of a devoutly religious people.

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