Contributors
Introduction - Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall
PART I: Religion and Political Culture in the American Founding
Chapter 1 Deism and the Founders - Darren Staloff
Chapter 2 Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: The Influence of the Reformed
Tradition in the American Founding - Mark David Hall
Chapter 3 Jews, Judaism, and the American Founding - David G.
Dalin
Chapter 4 The Founders and Islam - Thomas S. Kidd
Chapter 5 Religion and the Loyalists - Robert M. Calhoon and Ruma
Chopra
Chapter 6 The Antifederalists and Religion - Donald L. Drakeman
Chapter 7 The Bible in the Political Culture of the American
Founding - Daniel L. Dreisbach
Chapter 8 Religion, Race, and the Founders - Jonathan D. Sassi
PART II: Faith and the Founders
Chapter 9 Gouverneur Morris and Theistic Rationalism in the
Founding Era - Gregg Frazer
Chapter 10 John Hancock: Congregationalist Revolutionary - Gary
Scott Smith
Chapter 11 Elias Boudinot, Presbyterians, and the Quest for a
"Righteous Republic" - Jonathan Den Hartog
Chapter 12 The Quaker Contributions of John Dickinson to the
Creation of the American Republic - Jane E. Calvert
Chapter 13 Isaac Backus and John Leland: Baptist Contributions to
Religious Liberty in the Founding Era - Joe L. Coker
Index
Daniel L. Dreisbach is Professor of Justice, Law and Society at
American University.
Mark David Hall is the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of
Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at
George Fox University.
"This book does a splendid job of illuminating varieties of
American revolutionary and religious experience...." --Journal of
American History
"Dreisbach and Hall's volume definitely advances the conversation
about religion and the founding through widening the scope of
topics considered and acknowledging the complexity of the issue."
--Religion in American History
"This book helpfully extends the excellent efforts that its editors
have been making for several years to clarify, but also to
complicate, historical understanding of religion and the American
founding."--Journal of Religion
"This is a unique and very interesting volume. There have been many
works on the faith of the American founders, but this one is both
notably comprehensive and intriguing. Its contents range from deism
to Judaism to Calvinism to Islam, from Loyalists to Baptists, from
Quakers to Presbyterians, from John Hancock to John Dickinson, from
the Bible to race. Much of this work breaks entirely new ground.
Kudos to Daniel Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, and their
colleagues for a real contribution to the field and for some
fascinating reading." --Paul Kengor, Professor of Political
Science, Grove City College
"Faith and the Founders of the American Republic is a collection of
essays that rises above the unfounded orthodoxies and retrieves
encrusted orthodoxies back into historical analysis... [It] is at
the forefront of this historiographical sea change. Things that
should not have been forgotten were lost but now have been found.
What many had relegated to myth is being returned to history."
--British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
"This volume seeks to restore the notion that many of the founding
if lesser-known lights of the Revolutionary era were decidedly
religious, and brought their religious perspectives and motives to
bear on their political convictions and actions. The topics are
quite diverse from considerations of the role of Judaism and Islam
to various political factions (Loyalists,
Federalists) to various figures such as Elias Boudinot and John
Hancock." --Religious Studies Review
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