Patriotism & piety : Federalist politics and religious struggle in the new American nation / Jonathan J. Den Hartog.
Series: Jeffersonian AmericaPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780813936413 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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- Patrotism and piety
- Federal Party (U.S.) -- History
- Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Patriotism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Piety -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
- United States -- Religion -- To 1800
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Federalist politics and religious struggle in the new American nation -- I. Evangelicals and federalists -- John Jay and the shift from republican religion to Evangelical federalism -- Timothy Dwight and Jedidiah Morse : the politics of infidelity -- Caleb Strong and the politics of personal piety -- Advocating "public righteousness" : Elias Boudinot and the transformation of Federalist religion -- II. Alternatives to the Evangelical Party -- Unitarian politics and the splintering of the Federalist coalition -- Religion and federalism with a south Carolina accent -- III. Religion and politics after the Federalist Party -- Peter Augustus Jay : Federalist withdrawal and the turn to voluntarist morality -- William Jay : nonpolitical moral and religious reform -- Epilogue: Federalists, religion, and American politics.
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