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Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History

Katherine Carté

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 14th, 2021
  • Pages: 416
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.40in - 7.70in - 1.30in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9781469662640
  • Categories: • United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)• Christianity - History• Europe - Great Britain - General

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About the Author

Carté, Katherine: - 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.

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Praise for this book

A timely contribution to the historiography of the rise and fall of the first British Empire. . . . [F]uture scholars will be inspired by [Carte's] findings."--Church History
Religion and American Revolution excels as a history of protestant power in and through the American Revolution . . . [that] compellingly examines and critiques the mechanisms and architecture by which protestants asserted themselves through networks, despite their religious rhetoric never having been a necessary cause for the American Revolution or the founding of the United States."--American Religion
[Carte's] recovery of imperial Protestantism is a notable research achievement and a valuable addition to the new transatlantic assessment of the Revolution."--Journal of Church and State
Carte's work encourages further engagement with a topic whose consequences reach far into the present."--Journal for the History of Theology
Carte has produced a study that needs to be read."--Journal of American History
Carte's book is valuable to anyone who wants to understand the role of established religion in the British Empire and the reasons why established religion was abandoned after the war. . . . Carefully researched, clearly written, and interesting to read."--Journal of the American Revolution
Perhaps the most extensive study of public religion across the British Empire in the Revolutionary era. . . . Religion and the American Revolution will stand as an important touchstone for historians of the American Revolution and historians of eighteenth-century religion."--H-Early-America
A timely Atlantic story [and] . . . a reorientation of how we should think about the nation's founding."--Society for U.S. Intellectual History

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: UNC Press
UNC Press
@UNC_Press
2 years

The University of North Carolina Press publishes distinguished scholarship and superb general interest books. Founded in 1922.

CONGRATS Kate Le Carte @KeCarte and RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: An Imperial History (published by @OIEAHC-UNC Press) for your @ASChurchHistory award win! 🎉🎉 cc: @UNCPressAwards https://t.co/tBUE3NB2bQ

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Mentioner image for: The George Washington Presidential Library
The George Washington Presidential Library
@GWBooks
3 years

The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. We advance knowledge about Washington and his Early American World. IG: gwbooks

COMING SOON: Join @GWBooks on 7/22 @ 7 pm for our next Digital Talk featuring Dr. Katherine Carté (@KeCarte) of @SMUDedman @smu, author of the new book, Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History (@UNC_Press, 2021). Details here: https://bit.ly/3kmz2U5 https://t.co/nZDZWHxmR6

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